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List:       gobolinux-devel
Subject:    [gobolinux-devel] UpdateSettings proposal
From:       theyranos () gmail ! com (Dan)
Date:       2006-06-06 23:23:40
Message-ID: 365E92EB-7859-4FCE-987D-87CC4B500AC1 () gmail ! com
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I have a long-term goal. I would like to make it so that, some time  
in the future, I can press ctrl+alt+f4, log in to a framebuffer, type  
'Freshen -U,' then go to lunch, happy in the knowledge that when I  
get back, all those new versions I've been reading about on the - 
recipes list will be on my system, running smoothly.

At the moment, this can't happen because the process for installing  
individual packages is very highly interactive.

A while ago, I submitted a patch to UpdateSettings that added the -- 
quick option. I like the --quick option, but I think I can do better.

I'd like to add three things to UpdateSettings.
(1) An --auto option, that updates settings on your machine without  
interacting with you at all. The implementation of --auto would be  
aware of which version it was updating from, and try to merge the  
changes you've made to your configuration with the changes that have  
been made to the default configuration.

(2) UpdateSettings.conf, a non-mandatory configuration file that  
describes how the --auto option should behave and gives users the  
choice to change UpdateSettings's default behavior to --quick or -- 
auto if they so desire, and

(3) an implementation of the 'hints file' idea Hisham proposed in the  
$sudo_exec thread.

In doing this, I'd make sure that without a hints file or  
UpdateSettings.conf, UpdateSettings would behave exactly the way it  
did before except for, the --help output, which would be a little  
different. This little project would just be moving myself one step  
closer to being able to start Freshen and then leave for the day.

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