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On 2020.05.29 12:00, Ashley Dixon wrote: |
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> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:12:44AM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> > Wonder why it is not being kept up to date. Maintainer no longer |
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> > interested in it, other tools took its place??? |
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> |
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> The code developer is a Gentoo developer. I've looked at the C (one |
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> file) and |
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> it's not particularly good code; 100+ line functions with a |
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> few memory |
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> leaks and generally poor C-programming practices. I would advise |
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> against using |
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> it, especially considering that it doesn't provide any |
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> functionality over |
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> grepping through use{,.local}.desc or using the on-line index. |
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> |
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> It also has a few other silly bugs [1] and quirks; I'd be very |
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> dissatisfied if a |
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> programmer under my (hypothetical) employment wrote such code. |
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> |
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> The maintainer/developer also seems to have a very carefree attitude |
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> to serious |
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> bug reports, such as replying with "euses checks for an |
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> environment variable |
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> PORTDIR. Does this help?" to the report regarding his tool relying |
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> heavily on |
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> deprecated features. |
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> |
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> [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/715748 |
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I'm a bit confused here. That bug is filed against app-portage/euses, |
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but it complains about euse, and specifically at the end of the |
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initial report it says app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.6. Do both |
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gentoolkit and euses have their own "euse" command? (I don't plan to |
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emerge euses just to test that.) |
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