Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New PROPERTIES=interactive value to identify interactive packages?

2008-08-07 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Zac Medico wrote: Like Alec said, I don't think this is a difficult thing to get right and even if the maintainer doesn't get it right initially then it's not something that's very difficult to spot and fix. More elusive bugs certainly do exist. That said, I still would like to make use of the

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] New PROPERTIES=interactive value to identify interactive packages?

2008-08-06 Thread Zac Medico
-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

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New PROPERTIES=interactive value to identify interactive packages?

2008-08-06 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -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

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New PROPERTIES=interactive value to identify interactive packages?

2008-08-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: Just to be clear; PROPERTIES is a space separated list of items correct? I was thinking that it might support the same syntax as RESTRICT, which includes support for USE conditionals. Zac -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New PROPERTIES=interactive value to identify interactive packages?

2008-08-06 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Please consider a new PROPERTIES=interactive setting that allows an ebuild to indicate that it uses stdin and stdout for user I don't think anyone will disagree with this one. The one problem that I see is that if the ebuild still doesn't have this value in it, portage will *look* like it has

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New PROPERTIES=interactive value to identify interactive packages?

2008-08-06 Thread Alec Warner
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please consider a new PROPERTIES=interactive setting that allows an ebuild to indicate that it uses stdin and stdout for user I don't think anyone will disagree with this one. The one problem that I see is that if the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New PROPERTIES=interactive value to identify interactive packages?

2008-08-06 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Olexa wrote: Please consider a new PROPERTIES=interactive setting that allows an ebuild to indicate that it uses stdin and stdout for user I don't think anyone will disagree with this one. The one problem that I see is that if the ebuild