Re: [gentoo-user] advice on transitioning from package.use file to package.use directory

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:00 PM, Todd Goodman <tsg@×××××××××.net> wrote:
> * Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com> [150831 15:35]:
>> Having read the email exchange on the possibility of using
>> 'package.use' as a directory, I thought I would give that a try.
>>
>> Here is what I have attempted so far.
>>
>> cd /etc/portage
>> mv package.use package.use.COPY
>> mkdir package.use
>> cd package.use
>> awk -F'[/\t ]+' '{printf("echo \047%s\047 >> ", $0); sub("-[0-9]+.*",
>> "", $2); print $2}' ../package.use.COPY
>>
>> NOTE; the awk output just generates the command lines for the shell to
>> run. If the output is acceptable, it should be piped through to the
>> shell.
>>
>> Here is the contents of the original 'package.use' file:
>>
>> cat package.use
>> =dev-lang/python-2.7.9-r1 sqlite
>> >=dev-ruby/json-1.8.2-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21
>> >=dev-ruby/racc-1.4.11 ruby_targets_ruby21
>> >=dev-ruby/rake-0.9.6-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21
>> >=dev-ruby/rdoc-4.0.1-r2 ruby_targets_ruby21
>> >=dev-ruby/rubygems-2.2.5-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21
>> >=media-libs/harfbuzz-0.9.38 icu
>> >=media-video/ffmpeg-2.6.3 theora
>> >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.8-r1 minizip
>> >=virtual/rubygems-10 ruby_targets_ruby21
>> gnome-base/gvfs -http gphoto2 mtp
>> media-video/vlc a52 aac bidi cdda cdio dts dvd flac freetype gnutls
>> httpd libass live lua mad matroska mpeg ogg oggvorbis qt4 stream svga
>> theora vcd vlm wxwindows xv
>> net-print/hplip scanner qt4
>> sys-apps/busybox -pam
>> sys-devel/gcc objc
>> sys-process/cronie anacron
>> x11-base/xorg-server udev
>> xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager -udisks
>> xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin hddtemp lm_sensors
>>
>> NOTE: There are two entries for 'rubygems' there.
>>
>> Here is the awk script output:
>>
>> echo '=dev-lang/python-2.7.9-r1 sqlite' >> python
>> echo '>=dev-ruby/json-1.8.2-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21' >> json
>> echo '>=dev-ruby/racc-1.4.11 ruby_targets_ruby21' >> racc
>> echo '>=dev-ruby/rake-0.9.6-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21' >> rake
>> echo '>=dev-ruby/rdoc-4.0.1-r2 ruby_targets_ruby21' >> rdoc
>> echo '>=dev-ruby/rubygems-2.2.5-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21' >> rubygems
>> echo '>=media-libs/harfbuzz-0.9.38 icu' >> harfbuzz
>> echo '>=media-video/ffmpeg-2.6.3 theora' >> ffmpeg
>> echo '>=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.8-r1 minizip' >> zlib
>> echo '>=virtual/rubygems-10 ruby_targets_ruby21' >> rubygems
>> echo 'gnome-base/gvfs -http gphoto2 mtp' >> gvfs
>> echo 'media-video/vlc a52 aac bidi cdda cdio dts dvd flac freetype
>> gnutls httpd libass live lua mad matroska mpeg ogg oggvorbis qt4
>> stream svga theora vcd vlm wxwindows xv' >> vlc
>> echo 'net-print/hplip scanner qt4' >> hplip
>> echo 'sys-apps/busybox -pam' >> busybox
>> echo 'sys-devel/gcc objc' >> gcc
>> echo 'sys-process/cronie anacron' >> cronie
>> echo 'x11-base/xorg-server udev' >> xorg-server
>> echo 'xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager -udisks' >> xfce4-power-manager
>> echo 'xfce-extra/xfce4-sensors-plugin hddtemp lm_sensors' >>
>> xfce4-sensors-plugin
>>
>> The two 'rubygems' entries I had in the original 'package.use' file
>> went into a single 'rubygems' file:
>>
>> cat rubygems
>> >=dev-ruby/rubygems-2.2.5-r1 ruby_targets_ruby21
>> >=virtual/rubygems-10 ruby_targets_ruby21
>>
>> Is this format acceptable? Or should I have used two separate files,
>> one for 'dev-lang/rubygems', and another for 'virtual/rubygems'?
>>
>> I have run 'emerge -auUND @world' since the transition, which voiced
>> no complaints so far.
>>
>> The list's input would be appreciated.
>
> Those should all be fine.  I tend to make a file per package but I think
> you could have just moved your original package.use into the
> /etc/portage/package.use directory and everything would be fine (aside
> from you not gaining any benefit from separate files.)
>
> Todd
>

Understood. Thanks.