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Dustin Spicuzza wrote: |
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> Hey, |
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> I've been using Gentoo for a couple of years now... and portage was |
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> the #1 reason I kept using Gentoo over other Linux distros... and why |
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> I'm still using it. |
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> Something that's always bugged me a lot is USE flags. Which, while I |
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> think that they are one of the best things about portage, I think that |
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> they are also one of the more annoying features as well... it can be |
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> relatively annoying to configure it all up. Especially researching |
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> what they are... yes, it just takes a little bit of effort to find |
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> them, but why not make it slightly easier? |
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> Anyways, I made a patch (against Portage 2.0.51.22-r2, attached as |
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> verbose_use_patch.tar) that adds the description of each USE flag to |
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> the 'emerge -pv <package>' command. The output for openoffice, for |
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> example, looks something like this... |
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> [ebuild N ] app-office/openoffice-1.1.4-r1 -curl -hardened -java |
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> +kde -nptl +zlib 215,331 kB |
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> * curl - Adds support for client-side URL transfer library |
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> * hardened - activate default security enhancements for toolchain |
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> (gcc, glibc, binutils) |
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> * java - Adds support for Java |
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> * kde - Adds support for kde-base/kde (K Desktop Enviroment) |
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> * nptl - Enable support for Native POSIX Threads Library, the new |
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> threading module (requires linux-2.6 or better usually) |
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> * zlib - Adds support for zlib (de)compression |
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> And, it does this for each package (only for verbose obviously) Its a |
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> very small, non-invasive patch, and quite small (a routine in |
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> portage_util.py, and 5 lines of code in emerge). |
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> I attached the patch here because I wasn't quite sure of the proper |
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> procedure for patch submission... anyways, thanks for all your work! |
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> Hopefully in the future I can contribute to this project. |
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> Dustin Spicuzza |
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I like it but I'd like to see it in another tool. Or in the case of |
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HEAD, an emerge module. I know it's a PITA right now because all the |
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dependencies are depgraph related and it hasn't been easy to rip it |
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out. It would be nice to have a set of modules for generating metadata |
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like this in script form for servers as opposed to some kind of weird |
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emerge output that then needs some regex voodoo process. |
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Just my two cents :) |
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