On 2020.05.29 12:00, Ashley Dixon wrote:
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
I'm a bit confused here. That bug is filed against app-portage/euses,
but it complains about euse, and specifically at the end of the
initial report it says app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.6. Do both
gentoolkit and euses have their own "euse" command? (I don't plan to
emerge euses just to test that.)
