From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] emerge default opts
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 20:47:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ffdab38-6c1e-17f1-8a47-bded198d00cb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f9f9e4fb-a1a4-6727-5ec7-6084cee8d689@gentoo.org>
On 15/10/2017 16:31, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 10/14/2017 09:30 PM, Dale wrote:
>>
>> While at it. Is there a tool that tells when USE flags in make.conf is
>> either no longer used or doesn't even exist anymore?
>
> I don't know of one. It doesn't *sound* hard, but you would have to
> consider local use flags, flags from overlays, USE_EXPAND flags,
> wildcards, USE_ORDER, etc. -- so maybe it's actually hard/slow to do it.
>
> I found this feature request,
>
> https://github.com/vaeth/eix/issues/38
>
> and I guess that confirms that it's harder than it looks. Checking for
> nonexistent flags would be easier than checking for redundant flags
> because the latter depends on your package manager configuration.
>
There is a suitable tool. It's called grep, copious use of.
A suitably complex solution for the complexity of the problem!
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-15 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-14 10:01 [gentoo-user] emerge --emptytree : how to ? Helmut Jarausch
2017-10-14 11:25 ` Dale
2017-10-15 0:26 ` [gentoo-user] [OT] emerge default opts Michael Orlitzky
2017-10-15 1:30 ` Dale
2017-10-15 14:31 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-10-15 14:46 ` Dale
2017-10-15 15:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2017-10-15 18:47 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2017-10-15 20:39 ` Rich Freeman
2017-10-15 21:47 ` Bill Kenworthy
2017-10-20 2:23 ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-10-16 1:51 ` [gentoo-user] emerge --emptytree : how to ? Walter Dnes
2017-10-16 2:35 ` R0b0t1
2017-10-16 2:38 ` Dale
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