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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] emerge default opts
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 20:39:55
Message-Id: CAGfcS_=a-jsbYxR7O2-mKaud8=Tmpt_o6NEe34oWX3AU+FaHKg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] emerge default opts by Alan McKinnon
1 On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 15/10/2017 16:31, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
3 >> On 10/14/2017 09:30 PM, Dale wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> While at it. Is there a tool that tells when USE flags in make.conf is
6 >>> either no longer used or doesn't even exist anymore?
7 >>
8 >> I don't know of one. It doesn't *sound* hard, but you would have to
9 >> consider local use flags, flags from overlays, USE_EXPAND flags,
10 >> wildcards, USE_ORDER, etc. -- so maybe it's actually hard/slow to do it.
11 >>
12 >> I found this feature request,
13 >>
14 >> https://github.com/vaeth/eix/issues/38
15 >>
16 >> and I guess that confirms that it's harder than it looks. Checking for
17 >> nonexistent flags would be easier than checking for redundant flags
18 >> because the latter depends on your package manager configuration.
19 >>
20 >
21 > There is a suitable tool. It's called grep, copious use of.
22 > A suitably complex solution for the complexity of the problem!
23 >
24
25 Or you could just use portpeek...
26
27 --
28 Rich

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] emerge default opts Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] emerge default opts Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>