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On Friday 30 April 2004 22:53, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> I don't like that idea, portage shouldn't be interactive by default. |
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Hrm. It would only have to be interactive the first time - when it has |
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questions that it doesn't have answers to. And it asks all of those |
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questions up-front - when it has the user's attention. |
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It's no different in principle to the way that a windows-based installer asks |
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you all the questions before installing your files. It's a |
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human-computer-interaction model that most people understand, and are |
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comfortable with. |
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> Use pkg_setup() |
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... and output a message that the user probably won't read, because it appears |
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two hours into an 'emerge -u world' and has long gone from the terminal's |
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screen buffer by the time the user returns. |
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I think asking the user *before* the emerge -u world begins is a lot |
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friendlier myself. |
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> and tell the user to set the required values via the |
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> environment or with a tool, let's call it gentoo-db-config for now. |
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Sounds like the 'cache editor' that I mentioned in my original post. |
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> That's the standard way to do such things (java-config, gcc-config) and |
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> I don't see why databases should be an exception. |
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These tools don't influence ebuilds at all. |
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Although it might benefit working with databases, my idea about improving |
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Portage is a more general idea. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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