On 16/08/2003 at 08:33:06(+0200), Philippe Lafoucrière used 0.4K just to say:
> > Sure you can - that's what local USE flags are for.
> 
> Yes, but it would simpler to have an interface than to looking in use.local.desc file every
> time you emerge a package.

What about ufed? It is already done and has the required capability (checkboxes
and stuff).  The only thing ufed needs before becoming what you want is the
capability to let you choose what flags you want to configure.

For example if ufed has the capability to be run as:

# ufed ssl pam ipv6

and then only let you configure the three flags "ssl", "pam" and "ipv6", then,
you could configure your packages before emerging them with this.

Example. You want to configure the following command:

# emerge -pvU samba proftpd

You configure it with this:

# emerge -pvU samba proftpd | 
	grep '^\[ebuild'    |
	cut -f2- -d]        |
	cut -f3- -d\        |
	sed -e 's/[-+]//g'  |
	xargs ufed

I actually even coded the changes I had in mind. You may want to use the shell
script I attach for configuring though since the code above is a little too
long to type every time by hand.

Please test and if the devs like it -- apply.

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