i wish we would start seeing ebuilds that would wrap the excellent doc we can find on gentoo wiki sites. usually gentoo as a pretty good step-by-step way of doing things which could be automated. starting from the installation to more specific things I'd like to ask about. I wish users could do things like emerge gentoo-quickcam which would check my hardware, download the right driver, go enable required options in my /usr/src/linux/.config and setup everything to make my quickcam works. another one, gentoo-webcam, would have quickcam as a dependency and then setup a daemon which takes a picture every second, ready to be displayed on apache. I also wish really much for emerge gentoo-hibernation which would just do it all, and gives hibernation to any computer automatically. optionally, for a safe uninstall option, log of everything done on the system would be kept with reverse command for uninstallation. just a thought.
(In reply to comment #0) > the excellent doc we can find on gentoo wiki sites *cough* > usually gentoo as a pretty good step-by-step way of > doing things which could be automated. starting from the installation to more > specific things I'd like to ask about. Is this an ebuild request? We won't make any ebuilds that will automagically make your webcam work as we really can't. > I wish users could do things like > > emerge gentoo-quickcam > > which would check my hardware, download the right driver, go enable required > options in my /usr/src/linux/.config and setup everything to make my quickcam > works. Touching user files is bad and won't happen. > a daemon which takes a picture every second, ready to be displayed on apache. IMHO you don't need an ebuild for every task you want your system to perform. > I also wish really much for > > emerge gentoo-hibernation > > which would just do it all, and gives hibernation to any computer > automatically. Impossible, there's no such implementation (well, at least none that I'm aware of). > optionally, for a safe uninstall option, log of everything done on the system > would be kept with reverse command for uninstallation. Eh? Of course Portage keeps track of installed packages... > just a thought. Bugzilla isn't proper place for such ideas.
