Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] vdb-update script (for global updates) with job progress framework
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:33:39
Message-Id: 200602282332.25697.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] vdb-update script (for global updates) with job progress framework by Zac Medico
1 On Tuesday 28 February 2006 22:28, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > vdb-update has the beginnings of a job progress framework that portage can
3 > use to run various time consuming tasks, display progress, and interrupt
4 > tasks when necessary. When vdb-update and fixpackages are ready, I'd like
5 > to make both of them into emaint modules.
6
7 It's looking nice and clean at the moment. You might want to think twice about
8 integrating it into emaint, though. Integrating the couple of things that
9 emaint does into what you're working on would be much better. :)
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11 Seriously, emaint was created in about 30 minutes to counter the "regression"
12 of emerge warning on unsatisfiable world file entries. It was/is not meant to
13 stand the test of time in its current state. Why would you want to muddy up
14 your code with it? ;)
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