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