On Monday 15 December 2008 05:47:47 pm Duncan wrote: > 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! > > 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...
Does anyone have a substitute for udept's clean word file and clean /etc/portage options?
