Duncan schrieb am 16.12.2008 00:47: > Paul Varner <fuzzy...@gentoo.org> posted > 1229371818.21630.7.ca...@txslpc1d36.wkst.vzwnet.com, excerpted below, on > Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:10:17 -0600: > >> # Paul Varner <fuzzy...@gentoo.org> (14 Dec 2008) # Dead upstream, >> masked for removal in ~30 to 60 days. app-portage/udept >> >> Additionally, it doesn't play well with EAPI's greater than zero. >> >> The removal bug is Bug #250839. If upstream comes back alive or someone >> forks and actively maintains, I will unmask or re-add to the tree. > > Ouch! This one hurts!
++ I really hope someone steps up and continues maintaining this great tool. Before EAPI's greater than zero existed this tool combined many things I needed for daily use within one single application. > The main thing I use it for, and therefore the question I have about any > useful substitute, is quickly getting a changelog when portage won't spit > one out. In particular, when there's a USE flag change in an existing > package, or a downgrade, emerge --log won't output anything, because it's > not an upgrade. However, I find the info in such logs often useful! > > Of course I can check the package category and type in the whole long > path to the changelog and edit/head/view it by hand, but a quick dep -j > <pkg> is a lot faster and very useful! > > While I'm at it, is there anything useful to display metadata.xml? In > particular, the long descriptions and use flags can be useful. With > use.desc and especially the local version thereof going deprecated, and > with additional info about global flags sometimes in the metadata... Regarding metadata.xml there is (besides querying Willikins on IRC) emeta. Take a look at bug 248278 [1]. [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248278
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