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About eclectic
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During the last few months, ciaranm, ka0ttic, slarti and me have been
working on "eclectic" [1], a modular administration and configuration
framework for Gentoo. Eclectic is completely written in bash and unifies
different tasks in one tool with a consistent user interfaces. Up to
now, eclectic can handle mulitple tasks using the following modules:
* bashcomp:
Configure and list bash completetions, thus obsoletes
app-shells/bash-completion-config.
* blas,lapack:
Switch between implementations of virtual/{blas,lapack}.
This obsoletes sci-libs/{blas,lapack}-config (which are bogus).
* profile:
List and switch Gentoo portage profiles. Check if selected
profile is valid in regard to used "ARCH".
* mailer:
Manage the mailwrapper profiles in /etc/mail.
* kernel:
Manage the /usr/src/linux symlink.
Work on further modules is in progress like:
* vi:
Manage the upcoming vi symlink for parallel installs of vi clones.
(vi, nvi, vim, gvim)
* icu and ilasm:
Manage the different free implementation of .NET.
Eclectic has a library concept for shared function. It features common
code for configuration, output and multilib handling.
There is a both a developer guide and a user guide as RST shipped with
the source.
Currently, eclectic's source[2] is hosted at berlios.de due to our decission
to use Subversion as SCM. As soon as GLEP 36[3] has been implemented, we
would like to move to a Gentoo repository.
Questions
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* What do we need to accomplish to get the status of an "Official
Gentoo Project" ? Is a manager voting necessary ?
* What do the maintainers of Gentoo's various -config and -update
scripts think about converting their scripts into eclectic modules ?
* What is the best place for eclectic in the portage tree? app-admin as
it is an administrative tool? Or rather app-portage as it should be
used together with Gentoo only?
Danny
[1] http://developer.berlios.de/projects/eclectic
[2] http://download.berlios.de/eclectic/eclectic-0.9.1.tar.bz2
[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0036.html
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Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project
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