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From: Francisco Gimeno <kikov@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Parsable list of all use variables.
Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 15:50:49
Message-Id: 200205092250.46879.kikov@fco-gimeno.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Parsable list of all use variables. by Bob Phan
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4 El Jue 09 May 2002 18:06, Bob Phan escribió:
5 > I think it would be a good idea for someone (I could do this if no one
6 > wants to) to maintain a parsable list of all the use variables, what
7 > they are for, and which ebuilds use them. This would be useful for
8 > writing tools that would want to know this information, or even for
9 > automatic maintenence of a webpage for use variables. CSV or XML
10 > would be a good format for this. XML may be overkill, expecially for
11 > someone wanting to write a shell script with acess to this
12 > information, but XML would also work great for c, perl, python, and
13 > web maintenence.
14 >
15 > I have taken a look at /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc,
16 > and while useful for users to read, it is not easily parsable.
17 >
18 > Any thoughts, suggestions?
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20 and... going on work... we could make the same to the commands of the ebuild
21 packages, like dodir, doins, and those... to get them well-documented and in
22 an ordered way...
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25 Greetins
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Parsable list of all use variables. Bob Phan <bob@××××××××××××××××.net>