Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag swiss army knife

[JR Boyens]

Good work, I'm impressed. An addition to gentoolkit, maybe?

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JR Boyens
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On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:19:24PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Thompson wrote:
> I whipped up this script a while back for personal use, but didn't clean it up
> enough for public consumption until now.  My girlfriend has been bugging me
> to do this, and I never heard from Bob Phan about whether or not he was going
> to make a command-line version of his nice GUI USE generator (don't want to
> step on anyone's toes), so here is a tool/flamebait for you to check out and
> comment on:
>
> usetookit is a bash script that provides several functions:
> ushow - lists the contents of your USE variable
> udesc - lists descriptions for one of more USE variables
> uadd - add a USE flag (enabled or disabled) to your USE variable
> urm - remove a USE flag from your USE variable
> use-update - an etc-update-like utility that will interactively remove
> depreciated USE flags, then interactively add new USE flags, based on
> use.desc.  It keeps a cache of the contents of use.desc so that it will not
> keep bugging you every time you run it about new USE flags that you chose not
> to put in your USE variable.
>
> To use this tool, place it in root's path, then create symlinks to the
> functions you want to use:
> e.g.
> # ln -s usetoolkit use-update
> Run usetoolkit by itself to get help.
>
> Please keep in mind that my bash skills are practically non-existant, but that
> this tool works (for me at least) and doesn't have any bugs that I know of.
> Nevertheless, back up your make.conf before trying this.
>
> Yes, I know the code is ugly and horribly inefficient.  Please let me know
> what else you think about it.
>
> -- Michael Thompson