On Sun, 2022-12-25 at 18:02 +0000, m1027 wrote: > mgorny: > > > # Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> (2022-12-25) > > # make.conf writing is broken and package.use support incomplete. > > # Last release in 2013. Attempted unsuccessfully fixing it in 2017. > > # Use an editor instead. > > # Removal on 2023-01-24. Bug #888423. > > app-portage/flaggie > > So I will deeply miss flaggie! Despite some issues it is a very > helpful thing once you know it, e.g. for automated USE flag changes > over ssh in a server farm.
Hmm, that's a use case I didn't think of (and I didn't know anyone is actually using flaggie non-interactively). I guess most of the time you could get away with something like: echo app-foo/bar baz >> /etc/portage/package.use/local.conf etc. > I am rather in C than in python so I cannot really help advancing > flaggie. But I wonder whether there is a full specification for USE > in make.conf as well as for package.use/* so there was a chance to > think about a reimplementation somehow. To be honest, I'm thinking of starting from scratch like all cool programmers do these days. Perhaps I should aim for a very simple tool that doesn't try to represent all Portage configuration in AST and instead just does plain manipulations. So perhaps they'll be a flaggie2 after all. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
