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Hi, |
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Ive been playing with Java and Portage, developing portageMaster (like |
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Java GUI for portage) for some time now. Anyway since i have upgraded to |
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portage-2.0.25, everything broke because there have been some changes in |
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portage output, nothing major but it did require changes in parser that |
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Ive made. That got me thinking about standardised output. |
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How hard,complicated would it be to implement "standardised output" feature to portage? |
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Something like: |
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emerge --standard --pretend --update system |
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packages: |
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ebuild type:update category:sys-devel name:gcc version:3.1.1-r1 |
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ebuild type:new category:sys-apps name:grub version:0.90-r7 |
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or even xml type of, that can be easily parsed: |
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emerge --standard --pretend --update system |
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<packages> |
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<ebuild type="update" category="sys-devel" name="gcc" version="3.1.1-r1"/> |
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<ebuild type="new" category="sys-apps" name="grub" version="0.90-r7"/> |
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</packages> |
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Obviously none of the command-line users would benefit from something |
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like this, but it would make things much easier for people to design |
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GUI's, there are couple of projects already i think. |
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Regards |
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Milos |
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