On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 13:21 -0400, Dan Meltzer wrote: > Hi, I would just like some clarification if at all possible. > > Recently, while testing bugzilla-2.18.4 for x86 (bug # 107796) I ran > into some interactivity. I was under the impression that emerge was > supposed to be completely autonomous, and any user interaction should > take place in ebuild ... config. > > Apparantly one of us is {in,}correct, but I cannot find any > documentation although I'm fairly sure I have read it..
Ebuilds *should* be non-interactive. There are a few exceptions to this, such as ones triggered by USE flags (ala webapp-config.eclass) and ones triggered by necessity (ala games from CD). -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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