RE: Proposal for toolset modifications for LSB-Desktoprelease

Yes, that makes sense. The only catch is the user will have to remember
to enable the option, basically run a script. Not sure whether that will
be acceptable.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wichmann, Mats D
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 5:39 PM
> To: Banginwar, Rajesh; '[email protected]'
> Subject: RE: [Lsb-test] Proposal for toolset modifications for LSB-
> Desktoprelease
> 
> 
> >> How will we handle lsb-buildenv?
> >Same way. Lsb-buildenv -T=desktop start will be command line
> >for desktop. So we will just add a new cmd line option.
> >Internally, we will need to play some tricks in copying
> >headers and stubs in /opt/lsb based on the target.
> 
> This feels cumbersome, but let's ask a question:
> 
> today, can an ordinary user start lsb-buildenv, or does
> that have to be the superuser?
> 
> if the former, it feels reasonable to do sequences like:
> 
> lsb-buildenv --target=desktop start
> ... build stuff
> lsb-buildenv stop
> 
> but if the latter, I'd expect it to be a boot-time thing
> instead, and thus I wouldn't want the option to be a
> startup option, but rather a build-time option of some
> sort.