[gentoo-dev] Package-specific USE-flags?

[gentoo-dev] Package-specific USE-flags?

[Patrick Börjesson]

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Is there some way to set package-specific USE-flags in some config-file
somewhere so I don't have to give it manually on the command-line each
and every time I want to reemerge or upgrade the package? 
If not, then that functionality would make my life (and probably many
others too) alot easier. I just did an "update world" and after it
finished I realised that I had to reemerge a couple of packages since my
global USE-flags didn't comply with those I wanted for those specific
packages. For example: I don't want QT-support built-in for most of the
software on my machine so I have "-qt" in my USE-flag in make.conf, but
since I want the qt-gui for licq I have to reemerge licq with USE="qt"
after every single time licq is a part of an "update world". And just
recently I had to lower the aggressiveness on my CFLAGS to be able to
emerge mozilla-firebird. I don't want those slack CFLAGS for most of the
packages in my system so I have to give the CFLAGS manually when
emerging that package. 
A suggestion on how to realise it would be package-specific USE-flags in
make.conf or some other config-file under /etc. For example: If I
would want qt-support in licq then I'd add LICQ_USE="qt" in make.conf or
whatever where LICQ_USE is the package-name in uppercase followed by
_USE. Since there are support for converting strings to uppercase in
python I don't see a problem in implementing this feature.
Has there been no request for this feature earlier? Or is there another
obstacle in the way of implementing it?

Eagerly awaiting your response,
Patrick Börjesson

P.S. Sorry for the long post. D.S.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Package-specific USE-flags?

[John Mylchreest]

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On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 21:18, Patrick Börjesson wrote:
> Is there some way to set package-specific USE-flags in some config-file
> somewhere so I don't have to give it manually on the command-line each
> and every time I want to reemerge or upgrade the package? 
> If not, then that functionality would make my life (and probably many
> others too) alot easier. I just did an "update world" and after it
> finished I realised that I had to reemerge a couple of packages since my
> global USE-flags didn't comply with those I wanted for those specific
> packages. For example: I don't want QT-support built-in for most of the
> software on my machine so I have "-qt" in my USE-flag in make.conf, but
> since I want the qt-gui for licq I have to reemerge licq with USE="qt"
> after every single time licq is a part of an "update world". And just
> recently I had to lower the aggressiveness on my CFLAGS to be able to
> emerge mozilla-firebird. I don't want those slack CFLAGS for most of the
> packages in my system so I have to give the CFLAGS manually when
> emerging that package. 
> A suggestion on how to realise it would be package-specific USE-flags in
> make.conf or some other config-file under /etc. For example: If I
> would want qt-support in licq then I'd add LICQ_USE="qt" in make.conf or
> whatever where LICQ_USE is the package-name in uppercase followed by
> _USE. Since there are support for converting strings to uppercase in
> python I don't see a problem in implementing this feature.
> Has there been no request for this feature earlier? Or is there another
> obstacle in the way of implementing it?
> 
> Eagerly awaiting your response,
> Patrick Börjesson
> 
> P.S. Sorry for the long post. D.S.

this has been done by a friend of mine.
if you try searching the bug database for "package specific use flags"
perhaps, or his email (contains alkern) this might find something.
he wrote a portage patch.

Unfortunately i havent got a working browser right now, but it shouldnt
be hard to find. please post back if you couldnt find it.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Package-specific USE-flags?

[Max Kalika]

Quoting John Mylchreest <johnm@gentoo.org>:

> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 21:18, Patrick B=F6rjesson wrote:
>> Is there some way to set package-specific USE-flags in some config-file
>> somewhere so I don't have to give it manually on the command-line each
>> and every time I want to reemerge or upgrade the package?=20

The patch is available at:

  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D13616

Any feedback you may have is greatly appreciated.

> this has been done by a friend of mine.

Thanks for the kind words, John!

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Package-specific USE-flags?

[Max Kalika]

Quoting Max Kalika <max+lists.gentoo.dev@lsit.ucsb.edu>:

>   http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D13616

Whoops!  don't know what happened there...it needs to be:

  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13616

Sorry for the noise.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Package-specific USE-flags?

[Patrick Börjesson]

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> >> Is there some way to set package-specific USE-flags in some
> >config-file> somewhere so I don't have to give it manually on the
> >command-line each> and every time I want to reemerge or upgrade the
> >package?=20
> 
> The patch is available at:
> 
>   http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D13616
> 
> Any feedback you may have is greatly appreciated.
> 

I must be missing something. I went and downloaded the patch, patched
/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py, created and edited
/etc/portage/package.use to my preference (according to the syntax given
in the bug-page) but emerge --info won't give me the output I want. Is
there something else I should do in order for it to work?
/etc/portage/package.use is attached to see if you can find something
wrong with it. I began with a _very_ simple config =)

By the way, why isn't this feature being incorporated in the official
portage-release? You've apparently gotten some response from official
gentoo-developers.

Thanks in advance,
Patrick Börjesson

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net-im/licq	qt


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Package-specific USE-flags?

[Max Kalika]

Quoting Patrick Börjesson <psycho@rift.ath.cx>:

> I must be missing something. I went and downloaded the patch, patched
> /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py, created and edited
> /etc/portage/package.use to my preference (according to the syntax given
> in the bug-page) but emerge --info won't give me the output I want. Is
> there something else I should do in order for it to work?

Did you get the emerge patch as well?  Both portage.py and emerge need to
be patched.  After this, emerge --info should have a PKGUSE= entry.

> /etc/portage/package.use is attached to see if you can find something
> wrong with it. I began with a _very_ simple config =)

Seems ok.

> By the way, why isn't this feature being incorporated in the official
> portage-release? You've apparently gotten some response from official
> gentoo-developers.

Time, or rather lack thereof, I imagine.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Package-specific USE-flags?

[Patrick Börjesson]

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> I must be missing something. I went and downloaded the patch, patched
> /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py, created and edited
> /etc/portage/package.use to my preference (according to the syntax
> given in the bug-page) but emerge --info won't give me the output I
> want. Is there something else I should do in order for it to work?
> /etc/portage/package.use is attached to see if you can find something
> wrong with it. I began with a _very_ simple config =)

Hmm... I had to do a "emerge --info -v" for the information to show.
Still doesn't show in verbose-mode when listing packages to emerge:

$ emerge licq -vp

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild   R  ] net-im/licq-1.2.7  +ssl -socks5 -qt -kde +ncurses

It should show "qt" instead of "-qt" given my config, shouldn't it?

Thanks again,
Patrick Börjesson

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Package-specific USE-flags?

[Patrick Börjesson]

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> Did you get the emerge patch as well?  Both portage.py and emerge need
> to be patched.  After this, emerge --info should have a PKGUSE= entry.

Aaaaah =) Missed that one... Now it works perfectly!

Huge thanks for this feature!,
Patrick Börjesson

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Package-specific USE-flags?

[Patrick Börjesson]

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Ignore parent post, see post 4 minutes later instead =)

Patrick Börjesson

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