Re: [gentoo-dev] new use flag editor : profuse

[dams]

Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> maillog: 08/12/2004-03:41:03(+0100): dams types
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I have coded profuse, a gtk2 use flag editor (and more), and I think
>>it's working great. If you could test it and give me your feedback,
>>comments, remarks, wanted features, etc...
>>
>>http://www.damz.net/profuse/
>
>
> A few notes, requests... whatever:
>
> - It removed the quotes from almost all lines in my make.conf. E.g,
>   PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/portage" became PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage. I
>   don't like it when it touches stuff besides my USE flags.

That's true, I'll correct libconf to not always simplify the quotes.

>
> - It removes stuff from my make.conf if it is redundand with the
>   information from my profile. For example, if I have "alsa" in
>   /etc/make.conf and I run profuse, it says that alsa is set in
>   make.defaults and make.conf. I say OK, then run profuse again, and I
>   get alsa specified in make.defaults only, because profuse removed it
>   from make.conf. Could you implement an option that will at least give
>   it a choice to not touch stuff that is already in my make.conf, unless
>   I specifically request it? I mean, you do keep the data in the table
>   anyway? Maybe if you made use flags with three states ("enabled",
>   "disabled" and "unset") it would be trivial to write out to make.conf
>   every flag that is not "unset". The table could then display either
>   a "+", a "-" or nothing for each flag.

Both things are possible, what do you prefer? I think the second 
solution would be more straightforward

>
> - "profuse --profile-dir=/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/alpha/2004.3"
>   fails because of the weirs syntax in that profile.
>

Is it weird and wrong or weird but correct (and I should try to support 
it ) ?

Thanks for your comments

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dams

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