On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 14:06:49 +0300, Arttu V. wrote: > > emerge flagedit > > Yes, flagedit sure helps on a single box, but when running several > Gentoo boxes, with slightly differing USE settings, arches and whatnot > (firewall, server, old box for light browsing/office work, new-ish > multimedia/gaming workstation, a laptop, one with radeon-drivers, > another with nvidia-drivers etc), it all tends to get a bit hairy.
That's a fair point, and one that could be managed by using directories
for package.{use,keywords,etc}. Then you could have a file with global
settings that it pushed out to all computers and other files for
machine-specific settings.
> > eix-test-obsolete
>
> That was a good call, thank you! I have been avoiding eix for various
> reasons,
Various reasons? I can't think of one. The indexing is so useful and
test-obsolete is a bonus.
> > 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.
>
> Yes, I think this is more of a default settings issue. I'm betting
> 999/1000 cases or even worse, the user/admin just goes and emerges the
> dep with the required USE anyway. So why waste the time (or introduce
> compulsory interactivity) from most people and not have it as a
> default?
Making portage suddenly start re-emerging packages as a default is a bad
idea. The feature should be useful, but it should be turned on on the
command line, after seeing the need for it when running emerge -p/a
> > Gentoo is about providing ultimate control to the admin, so you can't
> > really complain about having to make those choices :)
>
> Hrpmft, I thought by now -- after about a decade or so of development
> of the brightest young minds of planet Earth -- there would be a
> package available in Gentoo with a command or script like
> eix-do-what-i-mean(t). ;)
You know that computers only do what you tell them to, not what you
mean :(
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