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From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: lafou@×××××××.fr, Gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge improvment
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 22:41:21
Message-Id: 200309132241.19647.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] emerge improvment by "Philippe Lafoucrière"
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4 I always run a 'emerge -vp' on the package before I install it to see what it
5 depends on and what USE flags take effect on it... Works well for me.
6 If you want a GUI, try KPortage. I believe it has an interface for USE
7 flags...
8
9 On Saturday 13 September 2003 10:12 pm, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote:
10 > hi all.
11 >
12 > I just discovered the etcat utility which is really great. In fact, I
13 > had a problem with quake3-nsco, and someone told me that there was a
14 > "dedicated" USE flag for this package. I had no idea that it was
15 > possible to get available flags for a package, and I think a lot of
16 > gentoo users don't do an etcat before emerging something.
17 >
18 > That's why I propore a new tool in portage. This would be a frontend to
19 > emerge. I already proposed it a couple of months ago. I won't be able
20 > to develop it, but I know some devs here with great skills in python.
21 > (BTW, I couldn't find the portage API doc, just :
22 > http://dev.gentoo.org/‾g2boojum/portage.html#importing-portage
23 > ).
24 >
25 > The tool would be developed in python + dialog
26 > (http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/), since we could use the portage
27 > api directly.
28 >
29 > First Menu :
30 >
31 > - Portage update (-> emerge rsync)
32 > - Portage upgrade (-> emerge -UDp world, then UD world)
33 > - Emerge a package (-> see bellow)
34 > - Quit
35 >
36 > -> Emerge a package will display a menu with all categories from
37 > /usr/portage/profiles/categories.
38 > When a category is selected, the tool would display all packages in this
39 > category :
40 >
41 > ----------------------------------------------------------------
42 >
43 > [ X ] package packages Desc (This package is installed)
44 > [ ] package2 other package Desc (package not installed).
45 >
46 >
47 > ----------------------------------------------------------------
48 >
49 > --> When selecting a new package :
50 > (for exemple : games-fps/quake3-nsco-1.45)
51 >
52 > ----------------------------------------------------------------
53 >
54 > [ X ] opengl : Adds support for OpenGL
55 > [ X ] X : Adds support for XFree86
56 > [ ] dedicated : Adds support for dedicated game servers
57 >
58 >
59 > [ OK ] [UNMERGE] [CANCEL]
60 >
61 > ----------------------------------------------------------------
62 >
63 > -> The user can see all available USE flags for this package. If he
64 > changes a flag, the package will be emerged again with the new option.
65 > He also have the possibility of unmerge it.
66 >
67 > Someone interrested ? please let me know.
68 >
69 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge improvment Brian Harring <bdharring@××××.edu>