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On Saturday 01 May 2004 01:13, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Oh, dear. I'm afraid I wasn't very clear about what I meant. I didn't |
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> mean that it's hard to write an interactive script, of course that's |
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> reasonably straightforward. What I was trying, rather poorly, to say |
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> was that one of the long-time tenets of Gentoo has always been that it |
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> should be possible for people to write simple scripts to _install_ |
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> ebuilds. For example, somebody should be able to write a poor-man's |
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> "kickstart" that would build and install a desired set of ebuilds, |
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> perhaps with customized USE flags. Or use cfengine to install a |
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> particular well-tested ebuild on one hundred machines. To the best of |
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> my knowledge having interactive ebuilds would make _that_ sort of |
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> scripting much more difficult. |
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> Does that make more sense? |
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Yup. |
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Like I said, it would only have to ask for information that wasn't available |
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from the cache of answers. Provided there was a tool to pre-edit the cache - |
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something I suggested earlier - then your scenarios would work. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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