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John Jawed wrote: |
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> Below is a link to an "enhanced input" eclass as well as a screenshot. |
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> This eclass was made to simplify interacting with the user at |
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> pkg_config(). |
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> |
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> http://jawed.name/dev/gentoo/einput.eclass |
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> http://jawed.name/dev/gentoo/einput.png (code used to create this |
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> output is below) |
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> |
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> This eclass started off as a small set of scripts used by academia at |
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> my current campus and eventually was built upon. I was the original |
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> author and modified it later to be ebuild friendly. It has support for |
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> serial consoles. |
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> |
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> The main purpose of this eclass is to make life simpler for developers |
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> that try to streamline --config interaction. For example, having |
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> --config with net-proxy/squid may ask for where to create the swap |
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> directories, sed the config and then issue a squid -z for the user. |
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> Taking it further, it may ask if the user wants the --config to add |
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> the runlevel init scripts. Upgrades to packages which require |
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> conversion of data catalogs (such as MySQL/PostgreSQL data |
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> directories) could also be streamlined with user interaction. |
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> |
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> In general, I think having more post install configurations to |
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> streamline the basics for core |
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> packages will be beneficial to both Gentoo newcomers and gurus. The |
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> einput.eclass should help Gentoo developers lives easier in achieving |
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> in that goal. |
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> I would like to continue to build upon this eclass. |
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> |
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> Regards, |
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> John |
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John, |
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I think you've done a really great job with this. Very creative and good |
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initiative. You're hired. Someone get him his developer badge.. |
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-- |
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Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/ |
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