[gentoo-dev] USE flag swiss army knife

[gentoo-dev] USE flag swiss army knife

[Michael Thompson]

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I whipped up this script a while back for personal use, but didn't clean it up 
enough for public consumption until now.  My girlfriend has been bugging me 
to do this, and I never heard from Bob Phan about whether or not he was going 
to make a command-line version of his nice GUI USE generator (don't want to 
step on anyone's toes), so here is a tool/flamebait for you to check out and 
comment on:

usetookit is a bash script that provides several functions:
ushow - lists the contents of your USE variable
udesc - lists descriptions for one of more USE variables
uadd - add a USE flag (enabled or disabled) to your USE variable
urm - remove a USE flag from your USE variable
use-update - an etc-update-like utility that will interactively remove 
depreciated USE flags, then interactively add new USE flags, based on 
use.desc.  It keeps a cache of the contents of use.desc so that it will not 
keep bugging you every time you run it about new USE flags that you chose not 
to put in your USE variable.

To use this tool, place it in root's path, then create symlinks to the 
functions you want to use:
e.g.
# ln -s usetoolkit use-update
Run usetoolkit by itself to get help.

Please keep in mind that my bash skills are practically non-existant, but that 
this tool works (for me at least) and doesn't have any bugs that I know of.  
Nevertheless, back up your make.conf before trying this.

Yes, I know the code is ugly and horribly inefficient.  Please let me know 
what else you think about it.

-- Michael Thompson

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Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag swiss army knife

[George Shapovalov]

Hi Michael

Thanks for the script!
Could you please submit it to bugs.gentoo.org?
One request/suggestion:
this linking single script to ~10 other names will create quite a mess to 
install and maintain. Why not pass the action as a parameter a la emerge?
Like: usetoolkit add usevar.
This will be pretty natural for everybody who used gentoo to the smallest 
extent. 

George


On Monday 20 May 2002 19:19, Michael Thompson wrote:
> I whipped up this script a while back for personal use, but didn't clean it
> up enough for public consumption until now.  My girlfriend has been bugging
> me to do this, and I never heard from Bob Phan about whether or not he was
> going to make a command-line version of his nice GUI USE generator (don't
> want to step on anyone's toes), so here is a tool/flamebait for you to
> check out and comment on:

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag swiss army knife

[JR Boyens]

Good work, I'm impressed. An addition to gentoolkit, maybe?

--
JR Boyens
jboyens@fooninja.org


On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:19:24PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Thompson wrote:
> I whipped up this script a while back for personal use, but didn't clean it up 
> enough for public consumption until now.  My girlfriend has been bugging me 
> to do this, and I never heard from Bob Phan about whether or not he was going 
> to make a command-line version of his nice GUI USE generator (don't want to 
> step on anyone's toes), so here is a tool/flamebait for you to check out and 
> comment on:
> 
> usetookit is a bash script that provides several functions:
> ushow - lists the contents of your USE variable
> udesc - lists descriptions for one of more USE variables
> uadd - add a USE flag (enabled or disabled) to your USE variable
> urm - remove a USE flag from your USE variable
> use-update - an etc-update-like utility that will interactively remove 
> depreciated USE flags, then interactively add new USE flags, based on 
> use.desc.  It keeps a cache of the contents of use.desc so that it will not 
> keep bugging you every time you run it about new USE flags that you chose not 
> to put in your USE variable.
> 
> To use this tool, place it in root's path, then create symlinks to the 
> functions you want to use:
> e.g.
> # ln -s usetoolkit use-update
> Run usetoolkit by itself to get help.
> 
> Please keep in mind that my bash skills are practically non-existant, but that 
> this tool works (for me at least) and doesn't have any bugs that I know of.  
> Nevertheless, back up your make.conf before trying this.
> 
> Yes, I know the code is ugly and horribly inefficient.  Please let me know 
> what else you think about it.
> 
> -- Michael Thompson

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag swiss army knife

[Michael Thompson]

On Monday 20 May 2002 10:16 pm, George Shapovalov wrote:
> Hi Michael
>
> Thanks for the script!
> Could you please submit it to bugs.gentoo.org?
> One request/suggestion:
> this linking single script to ~10 other names will create quite a mess to
> install and maintain. Why not pass the action as a parameter a la emerge?
> Like: usetoolkit add usevar.
> This will be pretty natural for everybody who used gentoo to the smallest
> extent.
>
> George

The script has been submitted as bug #2900.   
(http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2900)

Also added a "help" option to print out a manual.  I originally used symlinks 
as I am lazy and like to type as little as possible on the command line.  
However, your suggestion really is the Right Way(tm), so I modified the 
script as you requested.

-- Michael Thompson