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Hey, |
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I've been using Gentoo for a couple of years now... and portage was the |
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#1 reason I kept using Gentoo over other Linux distros... and why I'm |
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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 what |
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they are... yes, it just takes a little bit of effort to find them, but |
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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 the |
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'emerge -pv <package>' command. The output for openoffice, for example, |
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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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