Re: [gentoo-user] Simplistic bash-script to manage package.use

[Mikko Husari <husku@husku.net>]

Gentoo User wrote:
> Hi,
> I  don't want to make your work bad.
> After thinking it over I think it is actually a useful script, because
> it adds  a little bit more security to editing the package.use file
> (I'm always fearing the day when I'm writing echo "stuff" >
> /etc/portage/package.use").
> But do you know that package.use can also be a directory which can
> contain several files storing the use flags?
>
>
>
> Geralt.
>
> On 7/13/08, Mikko Husari <husku@husku.net> wrote:
>   
>> Gentoo User wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the question is: is it really necessary? If I want to add a new entry
>>> into this file I just call echo "category/package myflags" >>
>>> /etc/portage/package.use and if I want to edit them I just call my
>>> favorite editor, use its search capabilities and change the line.
>>> So I don't really see the benefit of a command line tool, since I
>>> still need to write flags, package and everything and the tools I'm
>>> using now (mostly echo, grep and vim) to do this are not very
>>> complicated and most of the typing goes to the use flags and package
>>> name anyway.
>>>
>>>
>>> Just my opinion.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Geralt
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/12/08, Mikko Husari <husku@husku.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> greetings earthlings,
>>>>
>>>>  i did not found (nor did i look for long enough) any tools/scripts to
>>>> easily manage package.use file, so i did my own. now i started to think
>>>> that, if there really is not any, my creation would be sufficient
>>>>         
>> (although
>>     
>>>> possibly buggy) for most users who wish to have "easy" control over
>>>> package.use.
>>>>
>>>>  yes, i know this is not the best place to "announce" but, this is not
>>>>         
>> an
>>     
>>>> real announcement, this is an query for an superior solution which would
>>>> show my creation to be useless/dublicate/stupid. (if mine is
>>>>         
>> useless/stupid
>>     
>>>> it would be nice, so i would not have to maintain it and i also could
>>>>         
>> use
>>     
>>>> some real software).
>>>>
>>>>  -- husku
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>  well, i cant argue with you on that. although, i also used
>> vim,grep,sed,echo to change my flags. still i felt i needes an easier way,
>> thats why i wrote it and thats why i think this is "easier" than
>> vim+handwork. basicly that script is only an interface to sed,echo,grep and
>> equery.
>>
>>  did you try to use it? id bet i could get changes applied much more rapidly
>> with that script than with vim or echo. (can not necessarily compete with
>> echo if you are sure it is an new addition)
>>  --
>>  gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
>>
>>
>>     
i did not know that, (also the script ignores make.conf ). how does that 
directory approach work, any documentation about it?

-- husku
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