On 27 May 2009, at 10:11, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
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Nah, that just doesn't cut it. It's annoying as hell. It's far less
annoying to simply "equery uses" on the USE flags you see during an
"emerge -a" and edit make.conf by hand instead of doing the
scroll-circus. You try to read text by constantly scrolling right
and
left. It doesn't work for me, and probably for the majority of
others
neither.
oh yeah, scrolling for a tenth of a second is so much slower than
feeding
equery or euse and then open make.conf, type, check that you did not
forget
something ....
When you called me a liar, the post you were replying to contained a
bit of detail on this.
Apparently you didn't bother to read all that, and just jumped to some
kind of conclusions and treated me like an idiot.
It's all about a matter of user interfaces and modes of thought. For
some people, a curses interface just isn't going to be as smooth as
some other.
Personally, if I type `emerge -pv mplayer` and see 30 different USE
flags listed, then it doesn't help me that they will be obscured if I
run ufed (which takes over the whole terminal window, overwriting the
output I was just looking at). No longer can I see what USE flags I'm
supposed to be looking for, and it doesn't help that there are loads
of USE flags in the tree that are unmemorable 4 letter acronyms.
That's why `euses` or `equery uses` just really suit me well. I can
don't have to open make.conf because I use flagedit, and I can bring
these commands up really quickly by typing ctrl-r and three letters;
when I retrieve a line from Bash history I tend to use the down-arrow
immediately followed by the up-arrow to get the cursor to the end of
the line; I can then use ctrl-w to delete the last word of the
historical command, and then I just type the new package or USE that I
want to query. For me this works very quickly. I guess it just suits
my keyboard style.
I don't want to have to bitched out because your favourite tool
doesn't suit me.
Stroller.
