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..


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Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/

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