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From: John Helmert III <ajak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-portage/flaggie
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2022 18:13:08
Message-Id: Y6nkLXVWDWFn1x9N@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-portage/flaggie by m1027
1 On Sun, Dec 25, 2022 at 06:02:11PM +0000, m1027 wrote:
2 > mgorny:
3 >
4 > > # Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> (2022-12-25)
5 > > # make.conf writing is broken and package.use support incomplete.
6 > > # Last release in 2013.  Attempted unsuccessfully fixing it in 2017.
7 > > # Use an editor instead.
8 > > # Removal on 2023-01-24.  Bug #888423.
9 > > app-portage/flaggie
10 >
11 > So I will deeply miss flaggie! Despite some issues it is a very
12 > helpful thing once you know it, e.g. for automated USE flag changes
13 > over ssh in a server farm.
14
15 If you're doing configuration management over ssh, you might want a
16 proper configuration management solution anyway, like ansible or
17 puppet.
18
19 > I am rather in C than in python so I cannot really help advancing
20 > flaggie. But I wonder whether there is a full specification for USE
21 > in make.conf as well as for package.use/* so there was a chance to
22 > think about a reimplementation somehow.
23 >
24 >

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