[gentoo-dev] emerge improvment

["Philippe Lafoucrière" <lafou@wanadoo.fr>]

hi all.

I just discovered the etcat utility which is really great. In fact, I
had a problem with quake3-nsco, and someone told me that there was a
"dedicated" USE flag for this package. I had no idea that it was
possible to get available flags for a package, and I think a lot of
gentoo users don't do an etcat before emerging something.

That's why I propore a new tool in portage. This would be a frontend to
emerge. I  already proposed it a couple of months ago. I won't be able
to develop it, but I know some devs here with great skills in python.
(BTW, I couldn't find the portage API doc, just :
http://dev.gentoo.org/~g2boojum/portage.html#importing-portage
).

The tool would be developed in python + dialog
(http://pythondialog.sourceforge.net/), since we could use the portage
api directly.

First Menu :

- Portage update (-> emerge rsync)
- Portage upgrade (-> emerge -UDp world, then UD world)
- Emerge a package (-> see bellow)
- Quit 

-> Emerge a package will display a menu with all categories from 
/usr/portage/profiles/categories.
When a category is selected, the tool would display all packages in this
category :

----------------------------------------------------------------

[ X ] package      packages Desc (This package is installed)
[   ] package2     other package Desc (package not installed).


----------------------------------------------------------------

--> When selecting a new package :
(for exemple : games-fps/quake3-nsco-1.45)

----------------------------------------------------------------

[ X ] opengl    : Adds support for OpenGL
[ X ] X         : Adds support for XFree86
[   ] dedicated : Adds support for dedicated game servers


	[ OK ] [UNMERGE] [CANCEL]

----------------------------------------------------------------

-> The user can see all available USE flags for this package. If he
changes a flag, the package will be emerged again with the new option.
He also have the possibility of unmerge it.

Someone interrested ? please let me know.


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