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Nice script, thanks. |
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> I thik I am the only one in the world who is interested in this |
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> feature |
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I think that we are numerous to wonder which packages have to be rebuilt |
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after a USE flag change: For instance, if a user adds "gtk2" to his USE |
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flags, applications that support it will only use it after their next |
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update, whereas he may want to recompile this apps right now. |
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So my point is that your program could be even more useful if it could |
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show only diffs on flags that appear in the IUSE variable from their |
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ebuild. This would be a nice answer to the "what should I recompile?" |
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question. |
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Here are a few other ideas of possible improvements: |
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* a few options: --cflags-only (-c), --useflags-only (-u), etc. |
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* integration into "qpkg" (as yet another "Information Selection" |
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option). I know "qpkg" is still a bash script, but I think there are |
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plans for a python version, am I wrong? |
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* taking ebuilds cflags filters into account. (Because if you go from |
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"-O2" to "-O3" in make.conf, and then wonder what packages have to be |
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recompiled for optimisation, those which filter "-O3" to "-O2" should |
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not be listed.) |
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Having said that, I won't blame you if you don't want to implement my |
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suggestions. I'm not a python programmer myself, and I really don't know |
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how hard it would be. :) |
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Thomas. |
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