Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:39:50
Message-Id: 200905271139.43861.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Another USE question by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Mittwoch 27 Mai 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
4 > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
5 > >>> Protip: arrow keys, left, right.
6 > >>
7 > >> Nah, that just doesn't cut it. It's annoying as hell. It's far less
8 > >> annoying to simply "equery uses" on the USE flags you see during an
9 > >> "emerge -a" and edit make.conf by hand instead of doing the
10 > >> scroll-circus. You try to read text by constantly scrolling right and
11 > >> left. It doesn't work for me, and probably for the majority of others
12 > >> neither.
13 > >
14 > > oh yeah, scrolling for a tenth of a second is so much slower than feeding
15 > > equery or euse and then open make.conf, type, check that you did not
16 > > forget something ....
17 >
18 > In fact, it is. That lack of word-wrapping is the major reason it sucks
19 > for me.
20
21 in fact, it isn't. Keeping in mind the half douzends of flags that have to be
22 toggled, looking them up and editing make.conf takes A LOT longer, then just
23 hit 'right arrow key' and go on.