On 04/24/12 11:21, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:11:44PM +0200, Theo Chatzimichos wrote: >> log from #gentoo-portage: <tampakrap> zmedico: (random idea) would >> it make sence to generate local.use.desc in /var/cache, or >> somewhere in /var, but out of the tree? > Why are we keeping it? I move that we remove it. It's been replaced > by USE flags in metadata.xml for several years now. > euse from gentoolkit still uses it since it is written in bash and XML parsing in bash can be problematic. We really need to get euse rewritten in python so it can use the portage and gentoolkit API's before we get rid of the file.
Additionally, if we move the file, euse will need to be updated as well and get pushed out to a stable version of gentoolikit. The euse rewrite is on the roadmap for gentoolkit-0.3.1 which doesn't have a release date yet since the primary contributors have been busy with other things. Regards, Paul PS: The gentoolkit overlay (http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gentoolkit.git;a=summary) is open to all Gentoo developers. The only requirement for committing to the gentoolkit branch is to pick up any pieces if you break something. Note: the gentoolkit-dev branch has tighter restrictions and access to it is controlled by idl0r.
