On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:12:44AM -0500, Dale wrote:
> Wonder why it is not being kept up to date.  Maintainer no longer
> interested in it, other tools took its place???

The code developer is a Gentoo developer.  I've looked at the C (one  file)  and
it's not  particularly  good  code;  100+  line  functions  with  a  few  memory
leaks and generally poor C-programming practices.  I would advise against  using
it, especially considering  that  it  doesn't  provide  any  functionality  over
grepping through use{,.local}.desc or using the on-line index.

It also has a few other silly bugs [1] and quirks; I'd be very dissatisfied if a
programmer under my (hypothetical) employment wrote such code.

The maintainer/developer also seems to have a very carefree attitude to  serious
bug reports, such as replying with "euses checks  for  an  environment  variable
PORTDIR.  Does this help?" to the report regarding his tool relying  heavily  on
deprecated features.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/715748

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Ashley Dixon
suugaku.co.uk

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