--- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > answer the 2nd question I have regarding the "+" or > "-" and whether the > USE flag is in USE?
This should do the trick: #!/usr/bin/python import sys if len(sys.argv)!=2: print "usage: %s <tbz2 file>" % sys.argv[0] sys.exit(1) sys.path = ["/usr/lib/portage/pym"]+sys.path import xpak mytbz2=xpak.tbz2(sys.argv[1]) myuse=mytbz2.getelements("USE") myiuse=mytbz2.getelements("IUSE") for use in myiuse: operator="-" if use in myuse: operator="+" print operator + use + " " __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list