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On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 05:41 PM, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> I always run a 'emerge -vp' on the package before I install it to see |
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> what it |
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> depends on and what USE flags take effect on it... Works well for me. |
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> If you want a GUI, try KPortage. I believe it has an interface for USE |
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> flags... |
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I may be wrong, but I'm thinking he's basically after a textual (eg |
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ncurses) interface akin to kportage. I haven't looked at the kportage |
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code, but I'm guessing trying to abstract out the gui (so that you |
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could use say a ncurses interface) probably wouldn't be fun... |
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Any one know of an existing project/codebase that is structured this |
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way? Eg, somewhat interface agnostic? Anygui would be perfect for |
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this, exempting last I checked it was in the middle of rather large |
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changes... |
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~bdh |
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> On Saturday 13 September 2003 10:12 pm, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote: |
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>> hi all. |
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>> I just discovered the etcat utility which is really great. In fact, I |
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>> had a problem with quake3-nsco, and someone told me that there was a |
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>> "dedicated" USE flag for this package. I had no idea that it was |
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>> possible to get available flags for a package, and I think a lot of |
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>> gentoo users don't do an etcat before emerging something. |
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>> That's why I propore a new tool in portage. This would be a frontend |
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>> to |
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>> emerge. I already proposed it a couple of months ago. I won't be able |
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>> to develop it, but I know some devs here with great skills in python. |
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>> (BTW, I couldn't find the portage API doc, just : |
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>> http://dev.gentoo.org/‾g2boojum/portage.html#importing-portage |
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>> ). |
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>> The tool would be developed in python + dialog |
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>> (http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/), since we could use the portage |
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>> api directly. |
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>> |
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>> First Menu : |
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>> - Portage update (-> emerge rsync) |
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>> - Portage upgrade (-> emerge -UDp world, then UD world) |
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>> - Emerge a package (-> see bellow) |
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>> - Quit |
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>> -> Emerge a package will display a menu with all categories from |
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>> /usr/portage/profiles/categories. |
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>> When a category is selected, the tool would display all packages in |
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>> this |
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>> category : |
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>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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>> [ X ] package packages Desc (This package is installed) |
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>> [ ] package2 other package Desc (package not installed). |
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>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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>> --> When selecting a new package : |
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>> (for exemple : games-fps/quake3-nsco-1.45) |
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>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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>> [ X ] opengl : Adds support for OpenGL |
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>> [ X ] X : Adds support for XFree86 |
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>> [ ] dedicated : Adds support for dedicated game servers |
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>> [ OK ] [UNMERGE] [CANCEL] |
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>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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>> -> The user can see all available USE flags for this package. If he |
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>> changes a flag, the package will be emerged again with the new option. |
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>> He also have the possibility of unmerge it. |
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>> Someone interrested ? please let me know. |
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