Re: [gentoo-user] format for eix-sync

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > The format is none of those :-) It actually looks like this:
> >
> > alan@nazgul ~/movies $ sudo eix --dump | grep SLOT
> > DIFF_NO_SLOTS='false'
> > FORMAT_BEFORE_SLOT_IUSE='\n\t\{(blue)'
> > FORMAT_AFTER_SLOT_IUSE='()\}'
> > COLOR_SLOTS='red,1'
> > COLORED_SLOTS='true'
> > COLON_SLOTS='false'
> > UPGRADE_TO_HIGHEST_SLOT='true'
> > PRINT_SLOTS='true'
>
> Wow, GREAT.  Slots are such a great idea, thjey need more publicity.

Yeah they are very useful where appropriate. Trouble with SLOTS is, you 
need to control their use very closely otherwise everyone and their dog 
decides to use them all over the place especially where not 
appropriate. And few people know how to use them correctly - for a 
classic example have a look at the mess that was eselect gcc...

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