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Hi fellow Gentoo Developer ;-) |
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An idea I got this morning, which is certainly not new, but I'd like to know |
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what are/his the final word on this from your mind. |
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What about a central config file, that would be able to generate all other |
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related config... gentoo_config.xml, which when transformed using xslt, |
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would produce conf.d/net, conf.d/ntp, etc... |
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I would be interested in working on this. It looks like the way this would |
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work could be similar as the today ebuild script system, where one would |
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write a XSLT for each module it port inside gentoo. |
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For example, I get in, I add an app such as xntp, I write down the xml |
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stylesheet to convert |
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<ntp> |
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<servers> |
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<server>name</server> |
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</servers> |
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</ntp> |
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Into |
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NTPDATESERVER=name |
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Then the ebuild script check if a ${P}.xslt file exists and if so execute it, |
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otherwise it call a function such as src_config() { }. |
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The whole system config would then stay in /etc/gentoo.xml. |
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People would still be able to change their config as normal because the output |
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files would be present and writable. Others would be able to view their |
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whole system config through a single file... |
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I have to admit that I don't have much ideas as to what are all the advantages |
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/ disadvantage of such system, I just thought it looked cool ;-) Maybe I can |
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just say that it is an exercice for the mind that I left for you to try out? |
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Yannick Koehler |
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