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On Monday 15 December 2008 05:47:47 pm Duncan wrote: |
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> Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o> posted |
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> 1229371818.21630.7.camel@××××××××××××××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on |
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> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:10:17 -0600: |
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> > # Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o> (14 Dec 2008) # Dead upstream, |
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> > masked for removal in ~30 to 60 days. app-portage/udept |
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> > Additionally, it doesn't play well with EAPI's greater than zero. |
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> > The removal bug is Bug #250839. If upstream comes back alive or someone |
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> > forks and actively maintains, I will unmask or re-add to the tree. |
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> Ouch! This one hurts! |
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> The main thing I use it for, and therefore the question I have about any |
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> useful substitute, is quickly getting a changelog when portage won't spit |
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> one out. In particular, when there's a USE flag change in an existing |
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> package, or a downgrade, emerge --log won't output anything, because it's |
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> not an upgrade. However, I find the info in such logs often useful! |
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> Of course I can check the package category and type in the whole long |
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> path to the changelog and edit/head/view it by hand, but a quick dep -j |
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> <pkg> is a lot faster and very useful! |
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> While I'm at it, is there anything useful to display metadata.xml? In |
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> particular, the long descriptions and use flags can be useful. With |
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> use.desc and especially the local version thereof going deprecated, and |
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> with additional info about global flags sometimes in the metadata... |
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Does anyone have a substitute for udept's clean word file and |
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clean /etc/portage options? |