On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 02:25 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Saturday 30 April 2005 00:52, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 22:55 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > > The only thing I think is necessary to improve for this to work is the
> > > method in which a package's config method is invoked. Doing it via emerge
> > > would be much more intuitive. Something like "emerge --config
> > > dev-db/mysql"? Use standard atom matching within the installed package
> > > database and use the standard "please be specific" message when more than
> > > one package matches.
> >
> > That would be very cool.  I expect it by COB today.
> 
> How's this?
> 
> # emerge config
> !!! config can only take a single package atom at this time
> 
> # emerge config db
> 
> The following packages available:
> * sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2
> * sys-libs/db-1.85-r2
> 
> Please use a specific atom or the --ask option.
> 
> # emerge config db --ask
> 
> Please select a package to configure:
> 1) sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2
> 2) sys-libs/db-1.85-r2
> X) Cancel
> Selection? [1/2/X] 1
> 
> Ready to configure sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2? [Yes/No] y

I like it.

I'm assuming it won't ask the "ready to configure" if you gave it a
package that there was only one of, like say, games-fps/ut2004 or
app-emulation/vmware-workstation?

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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