On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 18:12, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote:
> 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.

emerge -vp quake3-nsco

> 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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Chris Gianelloni
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