Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Last Rites: app-portage/udept

[Daniel Pielmeier]

Duncan schrieb am 16.12.2008 00:47:
> Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o> posted
> 1229371818.21630.7.camel@××××××××××××××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on
> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:10:17 -0600:
>
>> # Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o> (14 Dec 2008) # Dead upstream,
>> masked for removal in ~30 to 60 days. app-portage/udept
>>
>> Additionally, it doesn't play well with EAPI's greater than zero.
>>
>> The removal bug is Bug #250839.  If upstream comes back alive or someone
>> forks and actively maintains, I will unmask or re-add to the tree.
>
> Ouch!  This one hurts!

++

I really hope someone steps up and continues maintaining this great
tool. Before EAPI's greater than zero existed this tool combined many
things I needed for daily use within one single application.

> The main thing I use it for, and therefore the question I have about any
> useful substitute, is quickly getting a changelog when portage won't spit
> one out.  In particular, when there's a USE flag change in an existing
> package, or a downgrade, emerge --log won't output anything, because it's
> not an upgrade.  However, I find the info in such logs often useful!
>
> Of course I can check the package category and type in the whole long
> path to the changelog and edit/head/view it by hand, but a quick dep -j
> <pkg> is a lot faster and very useful!
>
> While I'm at it, is there anything useful to display metadata.xml?  In
> particular, the long descriptions and use flags can be useful.  With
> use.desc and especially the local version thereof going deprecated, and
> with additional info about global flags sometimes in the metadata...

Regarding metadata.xml there is (besides querying Willikins on IRC)
emeta. Take a look at bug 248278 [1].

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248278