John Jawed wrote: > Below is a link to an "enhanced input" eclass as well as a screenshot. > This eclass was made to simplify interacting with the user at > pkg_config(). > > http://jawed.name/dev/gentoo/einput.eclass > http://jawed.name/dev/gentoo/einput.png (code used to create this > output is below) > > This eclass started off as a small set of scripts used by academia at > my current campus and eventually was built upon. I was the original > author and modified it later to be ebuild friendly. It has support for > serial consoles. > > The main purpose of this eclass is to make life simpler for developers > that try to streamline --config interaction. For example, having > --config with net-proxy/squid may ask for where to create the swap > directories, sed the config and then issue a squid -z for the user. > Taking it further, it may ask if the user wants the --config to add > the runlevel init scripts. Upgrades to packages which require > conversion of data catalogs (such as MySQL/PostgreSQL data > directories) could also be streamlined with user interaction. > > In general, I think having more post install configurations to > streamline the basics for core > packages will be beneficial to both Gentoo newcomers and gurus. The > einput.eclass should help Gentoo developers lives easier in achieving > in that goal. > > I would like to continue to build upon this eclass. > > Regards, > John
John, I think you've done a really great job with this. Very creative and good initiative. You're hired. Someone get him his developer badge.. -- Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/
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