Re: [gentoo-dev] Opportunities to use slot operators

[Christopher Schwan <cschwan@students.uni-mainz.de>]

On Sunday 14 April 2013 09:09:13 Rich Freeman wrote:
> For whoever is interested I tossed together a script to identify
> packages that would immediately benefit from slot operator
> dependencies but which are not doing so.
> 
> The list can be found at:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~rich0/missedslotops.txt
> 
> This was generated by:
> https://github.com/rich0/finddepslotops
> 
> Feel free to make use of either as you see fit, make improvements,
> submit improvements, fork, whatever.  If one of your packages is on
> the list feel free to update it!  (And yes, I realize that in many
> cases this may have been done with newer versions of the packages not
> on the list - I didn't make any attempts to filter that out.)
> 
> Also, I'm sure I've used the portage API in less-than-ideal ways.
> Having not really used it before this was half a learning exercise.
> Feel free to send me suggestions/pointers.  If somebody knows of an
> easy way to process metadata in python (short of just parsing the xml
> myself) let me know - I didn't see any kind of API for that.
> 
> Rich

Is it possible to check a local overlay? Specifying CPV for a single ebuild 
works, but I wonder if its possible to parse an entire overlay at once.

Christopher