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On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:58, Martin Schipany wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> I've been using gentoo exclusively for over 2 years, and saw the number |
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> of USE-flags growing up to about 530 today. It is becoming more and more |
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> difficult to find the important and/or interesting ones. |
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> IMHO it would make sense to group them, for example a group "Local |
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> Flags" would be fine (especially on server where you don't need them), |
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> or "Hardware related" for supporting special features in this case. |
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> I know this is very rather "blurry" approach, but in the next months |
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> with upcoming packages the useflaglist will grow up to a thousand |
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> perhaps .. even more? And checking these takes a lot of time. |
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> an additional idea for ufed: maybe a "text area" with more lines or even |
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> a scrolling option would be fine for the explanation of the flags. |
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> currently 180 char wide terminal is needed to be able to read the |
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> longest one - and thinking of setting up a server with 80x25 I have to |
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> guess what flags to take .. |
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This idea was posted a few days ago already. It isn't exactly the best |
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way to fix anything. In fact, all it really would do is mask the real |
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problem. |
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Also, what's wrong with reading /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc anyway? |
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I guess I just don't understand the fascination with ufed since I have |
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never used it. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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