Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: John Jawed & Alex Tarkovsky's einput eclass

2007-07-08 Thread Rémi Cardona
Tiziano Müller wrote: > Sorry for the "atomic" posts, I should rather first think before hitting > the send button :-\ > > The problem with the proposed einput.eclass is that the user has to use > the commandline for that, which is fine for a lot of people. > > At the moment I'd rather like to se

[gentoo-dev] Re: John Jawed & Alex Tarkovsky's einput eclass

2007-07-08 Thread Tiziano Müller
Sorry for the "atomic" posts, I should rather first think before hitting the send button :-\ The problem with the proposed einput.eclass is that the user has to use the commandline for that, which is fine for a lot of people. At the moment I'd rather like to see a proposal for an "API" (together

[gentoo-dev] Re: John Jawed & Alex Tarkovsky's einput eclass

2007-07-08 Thread Tiziano Müller
Steve Long schrieb: > Hi, > A link on bugzilla somehow led me (isn't the web wonderful ;) to this: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/40596 > which appears (to a user) like a really good idea. There is a version still > at: http://jawed.name/dev/gentoo/einput.eclass > A newer v

[gentoo-dev] Re: John Jawed & Alex Tarkovsky's einput eclass

2007-07-08 Thread Tiziano Müller
Rémi Cardona schrieb: > As you pointed it out, ebuilds should not be interactive. Imho, adding > an eclass to encourage it is counter-productive. While that's true, there might be a use case in pkg_config. For example postgresql which needs quiet a few parameters to initialize the first database c

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: John Jawed & Alex Tarkovsky's einput eclass

2007-07-07 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 04:53:40 +0100 Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand that games are a `special case', but why not make it a > RESTRICT=interact which would automatically mean repoman would not > allow the package into stable, and admins could easily weed such > packages out? Tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: John Jawed & Alex Tarkovsky's einput eclass

2007-07-07 Thread Alex Tarkovsky
On 7/7/07, Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm ofc not including fetch-restricted which also require interaction, although that is standardised enough for a script to deal with[1]. Having found this for games, I can deal with that too ofc, but I still think the I'm not sure whether specia

[gentoo-dev] Re: John Jawed & Alex Tarkovsky's einput eclass

2007-07-07 Thread Steve Long
Rémi Cardona wrote: > Could you list the packages which could use this? Because if only 3 pkgs > need it, it might not be worth the hassle to add it. /usr/portage $ grep -lR 'GAMES_CHECK_LICENSE="yes"' *games*|wc -l 40 I'm ofc not including fetch-restricted which also require interaction, although