Summary: | ebuilds for howtos aka automated setup/configs | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Mathieu Jobin <somekool> |
Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | jkt |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2005.1 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Mathieu Jobin
2005-11-25 11:35:36 UTC
(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. |