On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 12:01 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote: > Not sure of the mechanics on how > this is done for the portage emerge process, but even stopping the > emerge process for those packages that *must* have a preconfig done > would help (are there any though? I can think of one maybe, but not > really anything to demand new functionality in portage yet).
This problem is mostly present in the embedded world. As the packages have to be fine tuned (as a kernel is) at compiled time for the system on which it is beiing build. For example, uClibc and busybox uses a kernel like config. As described on busybox's home page: "BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system." With so many applications/options provided by a single package, that aim to go in small memory/storage system, one must understand that users must fine tune it. Kristian -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
