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Hi all, |
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To start with, I'm a summer of code applicant. A gentoo mentor (Preston |
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Cody) suggested me to get in touch with portage developers, so, here I |
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am ;). Since I don't think you have access to my application page, I'll |
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explain what I propose. |
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When I emerge a new package, there's always at least one useflag which |
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make me shout "what's the hell this means ?". Now, I have to stop |
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emerge, grep /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc (crap, it was |
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in /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc), |
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edit /etc/portage/package.use, and then re-run emerge. And if I'm |
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unlucky (and I'm often), this useflag has added a new depend which has |
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a new strange useflag, and I have to start the whole procedure again. |
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So, I have imagined a new option to emerge, say --interactive-useflags |
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(the name doesn't matter for now ;)), which will work as this example |
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(well, these useflags are pretty obvious, but it's an example :p): |
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$ sudo emerge -vp --interactive-useflags liferea |
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Configuration of liferea... |
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debug - Enable extra debug codepaths, blahblahblah [y/N] |
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gnutls - Adds support for net-libs/gnutls (net-libs/gnutls [I]) [Y/n] |
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gtkhtml - Adds support for gnome-extra/gtkhtml (gnome-extra/gtkhtml) |
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[y/N] Y ... |
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xulrunner - ... (net-libs/xulrunner) [y/N] |
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Configuration of new package gnome-extra/gtkhtml... |
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same thing here |
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[ebuild N] gnome-extra/gtkhtml-3.12.3 USE="-debug -static" 0 kB |
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[ebuild N] net-news/liferea-1.2.7 USE="dbus -firefox libnotify -debug |
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-gnutls gtkhtml -seamonkey -xulrunner" 0 kB |
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Total: 0 package, Size of downloads: 0 kB |
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Then, emerge will add net-news/liferea gtkhtml |
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to /etc/portage/package.use and merge liferea normally. |
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Notes: |
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- gnutls - ... (net-libs/gnutls [I]) means that this useflag will add |
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a depency against gnutls ([I] means that gnutls is already installed) |
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- we don't configure gnutls since it's already installed, but we |
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configure gtkhtml since it needs to be installed (new dependency) |
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Comments, questions and other are welcome ;) |
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Regards |
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