Greetings to the Gentoo Portage developement team, altough I prefer using emerge from commandline, I recently discovered porthole and found it VERY useful when deciding which package to install/unistall due to functions for the visualisation of the portage tree, searches, instant ebuild viewing and sorting out which packages are actually installed, all made simple and clear. However, since I got used to having only the minimal saet of *really* global USE flags enabled and put everytthing else into /etc/portage/package.use, I miss a nice feature, that could improve porthole a bit - make it read that file and update the displayed package information accordingly. (maybe even make global flags and those in /etc/portage/package.use visually distinct?) I hope you'll find implementation of such feature worth your time. I know, I would appreciate it :-) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.53_rc5 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.13-gentoo-r4-sh6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r4-sh6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre9 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/overlays/fluidportage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa cjk cups firefox gnome gtk gtk2 icc jikes md5sum mmx mmxext nptl pam pic sblive sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype unicode utf8 userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LINGUAS
we dont develop porthole ;) you'll have to seek help at http://porthole.sourceforge.net/
