On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:36 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > In fact, I've thought many times about supplying "pre-packages" that are > > no more than a collection of all the config files for a given package. > > What about the unused `ebuild [ebuild] config`? Isn't that the perfect place > for this sort of stuff? The only package that I know that uses this feature > is mysql. There are way more possibilities.
I use it fairly regularly. I know that we use it on any game that requires a CD key, and also for VMWare (I bet most people don't know that!) to configure the modules. I hadn't considered using it for actually configuring a package (duh!) but that really is a very cool idea. Imagine if we started doing this for more packages. It would remove one of the primary complaints people have about Gentoo being "too hard" since they don't know "what to do next" after they emerge a package. If we got people used to "ebuild [ebuild] config", then we could remove a good bit of the issue. Just an idea, but one I'll probably be using more often now. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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