Bug 174330

Summary:	PMS is stricter about interactivity than the tree
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Marien Zwart (RETIRED) <marienz>
Component:	PMS/EAPI	Assignee:	PMS/EAPI <pms>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	alex_y_xu, coldwind
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Marien Zwart (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-04-12 18:44:50 UTC

pkg_config: "It is the only ebuild function which may be interactive
and prompt for user input." Currently this is not the case: at least
some game ebuilds are interactive in other phase for licenses checks
or cd/dvd switching. Unless an alternative is available for those uses
the wording here should be less strict (arguably should not be in the PMS at all: more of a policy decision than an ebuild format thing).

Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2007-04-12 19:10:10 UTC

This is intentional. Yes, a few ebuilds violate it at present. It's a nuisance.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2007-04-13 08:33:29 UTC

should strongly discourage it in EAPI-0 and once we have the required functionality in EAPI-1, we can strictly disallow it

Comment 3 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2015-06-11 00:51:07 UTC

I don't know of any ebuilds that do this currently.

If there are any, I think we should fix them.

re: cd/dvd switching, that should be handled in src_nofetch.

Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2015-06-11 03:30:52 UTC

Note that current PMS documents PROPERTIES=interactive.

(In reply to Alex Xu (Hello71) from comment #3)
> re: cd/dvd switching, that should be handled in src_nofetch.

The pkg_nofetch phase is only executed when fetch fails, and there's no opportunity for cd/dvd switching at that point, because no further phases are executed after fetch fails.

Comment 5 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2017-06-07 07:42:33 UTC

(In reply to Zac Medico from comment #4)
> Note that current PMS documents PROPERTIES=interactive.

Right, support for PROPERTIES is mandatory since EAPI 4.

So, what is the goal of this bug: Further change the PMS wording? Or enforce that all ebuilds in the tree are non-interactive? Last time I checked, the feature was used only by cdrom.eclass, whereas check_license() was disabled in 2011 already.

Comment 6 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev

2019-11-25 08:36:56 UTC

No progress, closing for now.