User:Maffblaster/Propositions

Here I have listed improvement propositions I believe will improve the over all look and feel of the wiki. Some of these ideas may eventually get posted on the Discussions article, but for now these ideas will stay here. If a proposition is accepted and the work required for the change has been done I will cross it off this list.

Portage updates

 * Output ( ?) the packages in a set, display a count of the total installed packages in the set. Example:




 * Add a  option to verify the integrity of installed packages. The digests seem to already exist; Portage just needs to reference them. Would be similar to the  command from, but accepts sets/package atoms/globs. Examples:



Automagic menuconfig display in KernelBox
Currently our template takes a concerted effort in order to display options nicely. Editors to manually format the text in the box to look good. It would be nice to have a template, (driven by JavaScript or PHP) that could take a kernel version and configuration options, and then generate a beautiful configuration based on those options only.

Copy to clipboard for command/code templates
We need to have a template for quickly and easily copying text to the clipboard. Clipboard.js should provide these kinds of capabilities without the need for Flash, which is excellent... it would be extremely useful for copying Article Blueprints, commands, or scripts directly from the wiki to be pasted into a terminal. I'll need infra's help with this.

Check out:

http://zenorocha.github.io/clipboard.js/

Subdomains
A few more subdomains may be necessary. Right now they are only dreams.

Requested articles
Finish writing all requested articles.

Repository/Overlay template
Having a template for referencing repositories/overlays would be good. This way users will be able to link to specific packages in their personal overlays...

Ultrabin host
This is not a wiki suggestion, but it's an idea that's been swimming around in my head.

What if someone created a binary package host capable of building ever binary with every possible combination of USE flags. That'd take a lot of space, but it could immediately serve up any package instantly.

Utilize Tahoe-LAFS for distfiles
Is it possible to utilize Tahoe-LAFS for distfiles? Using this method, distfiles could distributed better and redundant.