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I always run a 'emerge -vp' on the package before I install it to see what it |
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depends on and what USE flags take effect on it... Works well for me. |
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If you want a GUI, try KPortage. I believe it has an interface for USE |
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flags... |
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On Saturday 13 September 2003 10:12 pm, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote: |
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> hi all. |
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> I just discovered the etcat utility which is really great. In fact, I |
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> had a problem with quake3-nsco, and someone told me that there was a |
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> "dedicated" USE flag for this package. I had no idea that it was |
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> possible to get available flags for a package, and I think a lot of |
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> gentoo users don't do an etcat before emerging something. |
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> That's why I propore a new tool in portage. This would be a frontend to |
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> emerge. I already proposed it a couple of months ago. I won't be able |
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> to develop it, but I know some devs here with great skills in python. |
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> (BTW, I couldn't find the portage API doc, just : |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/‾g2boojum/portage.html#importing-portage |
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> ). |
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> The tool would be developed in python + dialog |
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> (http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/), since we could use the portage |
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> api directly. |
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> First Menu : |
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> - Portage update (-> emerge rsync) |
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> - Portage upgrade (-> emerge -UDp world, then UD world) |
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> - Emerge a package (-> see bellow) |
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> - Quit |
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> -> Emerge a package will display a menu with all categories from |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/categories. |
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> When a category is selected, the tool would display all packages in this |
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> category : |
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> [ X ] package packages Desc (This package is installed) |
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> [ ] package2 other package Desc (package not installed). |
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> ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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> --> When selecting a new package : |
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> (for exemple : games-fps/quake3-nsco-1.45) |
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> [ X ] opengl : Adds support for OpenGL |
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> [ X ] X : Adds support for XFree86 |
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> [ ] dedicated : Adds support for dedicated game servers |
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> [ OK ] [UNMERGE] [CANCEL] |
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> ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
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> -> The user can see all available USE flags for this package. If he |
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> changes a flag, the package will be emerged again with the new option. |
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> He also have the possibility of unmerge it. |
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> Someone interrested ? please let me know. |
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