Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question

[Stroller]

On 27 May 2009, at 10:11, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>> ...
>> Nah, that just doesn't cut it.  It's annoying as hell.  It's far less
>> annoying to simply "equery uses" on the USE flags you see during an
>> "emerge -a" and edit make.conf by hand instead of doing the
>> scroll-circus.  You try to read text by constantly scrolling right
>> and
>> left.  It doesn't work for me, and probably for the majority of
>> others
>> neither.
>
> oh yeah, scrolling for a tenth of a second is so much slower than
> feeding
> equery or euse and then open make.conf, type, check that you did not
> forget
> something ....

When you called me a liar, the post you were replying to contained a  
bit of detail on this.

Apparently you didn't bother to read all that, and just jumped to some  
kind of conclusions and treated me like an idiot.

It's all about a matter of user interfaces and modes of thought. For  
some people, a curses interface just isn't going to be as smooth as  
some other.

Personally, if I type `emerge -pv mplayer` and see 30 different USE  
flags listed, then it doesn't help me that they will be obscured if I  
run ufed (which takes over the whole terminal window, overwriting the  
output I was just looking at). No longer can I see what USE flags I'm  
supposed to be looking for, and it doesn't help that there are loads  
of USE flags in the tree that are unmemorable 4 letter acronyms.

That's why `euses` or `equery uses` just really suit me well. I can  
don't have to open make.conf because I use flagedit, and I can bring  
these commands up really quickly by typing ctrl-r and three letters;  
when I retrieve a line from Bash history I tend to use the down-arrow  
immediately followed by the up-arrow to get the cursor to the end of  
the line; I can then use ctrl-w to delete the last word of the  
historical command, and then I just type the new package or USE that I  
want to query. For me this works very quickly. I guess it just suits  
my keyboard style.

I don't want to have to bitched out because your favourite tool  
doesn't suit me.

Stroller.