On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 15:14, daniel wrote: > On June 16, 2003 10:53 am, Larry Meadors wrote: > > What would be really great would be to bea able to do this... > > > > emerge mozilla-complete > > > > ...and have it do all this stuff for you. > > maybe this is a bit overdoing it, or maybe just wishful thinking, but it seems > that the USE flags are getting a bit crazy in an attempt to solve this sort > of thing. want flash in konqueror USE="motif" etc. etc. > > why not something like this? have the USE flags for standard things, like X > support. you don't want a bunch of gtk or qt stuff on your sever just 'cause > you like nmap right? > > but for more detailed things, like flash in konqueror or realplayer plugins in > mozilla, why not a basic yes/no question period?: > > # emerge -p mozilla > Do you want flash? y > Do you want real player? y > Do you want <some sucky plugin>? n > ...compiling list > > [ebuild N ] net-www/mozilla-1.3-r2 > [ebuild N ] net-www/netscape-flash-6.0.79 > [ebuild N ] media-video/realplayer-8-r5 > > the personalised settings can be stored somewhere locally that isn't affected > by "emerge sync" and a single "use previous settings" question can be asked > at upgrade time or even assumed with a switch. granted, you can't get too > detailed with a setup like this, or people will be answering questions for > hours, but for something as intimate (wrong word?) as web browsing, i would > think that this sort of functionality would be very useful. > > any thoughts? Actually I have some thoughts. I accidentally sent this to Daniel instead of the list, but here goes again. if you do emerge -vp mozilla, what happens (for those of you who know, don't spoil the surprise!).
# emerge -vp mozilla These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] net-www/mozilla-1.3-r2 [1.2.1-r5] +java +crypt -ipv6 +gtk2 +ssl -ldap +gnome -mozsvg +mozcalendar +mozaccess -mozinterfaceinfo -mozp3p -mozxmlterm -moznoirc -moznomail -moznocompose -moznoxft # So as you see, portage DOES know what affects the package. So I don't see the reason you can't either have an option like "-askmewhatiwant" (not that of course....) or "-askmewhatidon'twant" and then it'll set temoporary USE options. I know this probably isn't the full set of what you want, but its something that could be definately useful. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
