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Rafael Fernández López wrote: |
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> Hi guys, |
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> There are some things that I forgot to tell ya. |
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> I know that lots of you don't know "dpkg-reconfigure", well, it will |
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> write the /etc/whatever.conf file for you asking you in an interactive |
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> way what do you want to do. I'd compare it to some package's "ebuild |
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> /usr/portage/whatever/whatever-0.0.1.ebuild conf". |
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> I would add a mark for packages that can be configured, as there is a |
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> mark for UPDATE, NEW, RE-EMERGE, FETCH... I'd add another one like "C" |
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> for ebuilds that admit "conf" option. |
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> As someone said here before, EMERGE is a not interactive tool (if we |
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> don't take in count --ask), but in general it is not interactive. And we |
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> can assume that anybody stays in front of monitor all the emerge |
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> process, so I'd suggest to print information (or warning) messages in a |
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> more efficient way, for example: AT THE END OF THE EMERGE PROCESS, not |
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> at the end of each package emerge process. I think that |
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> PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES, PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM and PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI is |
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> not so necessary if all messages are printed out at the end of the |
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> global emerge process. |
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I haven't investigated yet this "ELOG" thing but I couldn't I agree more |
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than this with you! |
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*CHEERS* |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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