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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: |
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> I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a |
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> million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for the |
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> options, |
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Quoting from the manpage .. |
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/etc/eixrc |
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Global configuration file. The variables in ~/.eixrc or from the |
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environment can override the variables set in this file. |
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See ~/.eixrc. |
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[snip] |
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~/.eixrc |
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Per-user configuration file. The variables in this file can be |
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overridden by environment variables. You can use a shell-like |
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syntax to set the following variables. ^^^^^^^^^^ |
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^^^^^^ |
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> I wanted to have a option line setting but I couldn't tell if it was |
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> like |
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> PRINT_SLOTS=yes or |
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> PRINT_SLOTS yes or |
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> PRINT_SLOTS="yes" or |
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> PRINT_SLOTS "yes" |
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As said above, eix uses shell-style configuration files so #1 and #3 |
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should be fine. |
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> There are other permutations. Howcome the man page doesn't give something |
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> as obvious as that? Darn huge man page, after I initially found the |
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> PRINT_SLOTS defintion, it took me 10 more minutes to find out that it was |
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> supposed to go into /etc/eix-sync. |
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Are you sure? Normally that stuff goes into /etc/eixrc or ~/.eixrc. |
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> It gives a great amoount of info, but maybe it could stand some better |
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> organization, to let things get found. |
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Martin actually acknowledges this problem in the "BUGS" section: "There |
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are too many features: The documentation and configuration has become |
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too complicated." So it definitely could. |
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The *huge* list of variables could be split up into sections, for |
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example all the "MATCH_*" stuff could go into a section called "Changing |
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default match-fields". |
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But this approach is probably be better suited for formats that support |
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links, so we can have a nice table of contents. info-pages spring to |
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mind, but I hear many people don't like those. |
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Another way to reduce the size and complexity could be to split the |
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whole thing into multiple documents, one for each tool (eix, update-eix, |
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eix-diff and so on..). |
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Any thoughts or suggestions on this topic would be greatly appreciated. |
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Cheers, Emil |
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Emil Beinroth |
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83059 Kolbermoor | Germany |
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