-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello again,
Please consider a new PROPERTIES=interactive setting that allows an ebuild to indicate that it uses stdin and stdout for user interaction sometime during the pkg_setup and/or src_unpack phases (similar to GLEP 52 [1]). This will be another use for the new PROPERTIES metadata variable that's been proposed for the implementation of live-sources [2] and virtual [3] PROPERTIES values. This is useful in cases when it might not be possible for the user to perform interaction with ebuilds, so they might decide to mask any ebuilds that exhibit this property. It can also be used to know in advance whether or not it's safe to run the pkg_setup and src_unpack ebuild phases in the background. This provides a solution for bug #233296 [4] by allowing exclusive access to stdin and stdout to be guaranteed during pkg_setup and src_unpack phases. We might also consider adding finer grained values of PROPERTIES such as interactive-setup, interactive-unpack, and interactive-preinst. Your comments will be appreciated. Thanks, Zac [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0052.html [2] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_187585c5d49b69034183719ff473710d.xml [3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/57610 [4] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233296 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiZbWwACgkQ/ejvha5XGaNOxwCdHdmNrDNQdH3PHtciQKINZHRv 6goAnjPL1i3Qwj3cs3lcC+v027TtRFPQ =RZBV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
