On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:24:58 +0300, Arttu V. wrote: > - Managing USE flags is sometimes quite irritating, having to fidget > around /etc/make.conf, /etc/portage/package.use and such with > everyone's favourite text editors. (Maybe I'm micromanaging them too > much?)
emerge flagedit > - Keeping the crud out of /etc/portage/package.keywords and other > similar portage files (much like with the case of USE flags above) for > us who don't run bleeding edge ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="arch ~arch". eix-test-obsolete > - Difficulty of predicting how long some new package compilations (with > dependencies, upgrades and revdep-rebuilds etc) will actually take > (genlop -t only knows about individual packages that have been emerged > before) That's got to be harder than providing an accurate weather forecast. > - Portage 2.2 stopping dead with "you should re-emerge foo with > USE=bar" with the new cat/foo[bar]-style dependencies. Would you rather portage simply re-emerged installed packages with different USE flags without consulting you? I suppose a "package X needs to be remerged with USE=Y, proceed Y/n" message could be useful, maybe with an option to do accept this automatically. Gentoo is about providing ultimate control to the admin, so you can't really complain about having to make those choices :) -- Neil Bothwick Velilind's Laws of Experimentation: 1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. 2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.
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