Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: Heinrich Wendel <lanius@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Menu - Bash vs. Python Rule files
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:43:53
Message-Id: 1060858071.19250.64.camel@vertigo
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Menu - Bash vs. Python Rule files by Heinrich Wendel
1 On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 18:48, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
2 > If you simply want to add a new entry you need to have a .desktop file and
3 > then you do "domenu foo.desktop". If you want to add a new windowmanager, you
4 > have to write a file like the example and add it to a directory, every file
5 > in this directory will be parsed and a menu will be created based on the
6 > rules in them.
7
8 Great, but why should I have to change every ebuild when it should
9 honestly be the PARSER's job to parse the current menu structures and
10 make its own, rather than modifying the existing ones.
11
12 --
13 Chris Gianelloni
14 Developer, Gentoo Linux

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