Bug 241932 – feature request: portageq envvar USE obey USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN= setting

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description jieryn 2008-10-14 11:13:10 UTC]

My invocation of `portageq envvar USE` gives me way more information than I want to see because it dumps USE Expand variables into the output. It would be nice if this utility would obey the USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN setting..

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Zac Medico 2008-10-14 19:41:54 UTC]

USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN is only intended as a way for user interfaces to hide flags from being displayed. So, the flags still exist, but they are hidden from view.

Perhaps `portageq envvar USE` isn't appropriate for you particular use case. What are you using it for?

[Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2008-10-14 20:18:32 UTC]

Does `USE_EXPAND="-*" portageq envvar USE` do what you're looking for, or does that strip too much?

[Comment 3 jieryn 2008-10-15 01:41:47 UTC]

`USE_EXPAND="-*" portageq envvar USE` is perfect! Willing to close as INVALID, WONTFIX, WORKSFORME, whatever..

Thanks Marius! :-)

[Comment 4 Zac Medico 2008-10-25 19:55:10 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> `USE_EXPAND="-*" portageq envvar USE` is perfect! Willing to close as INVALID,
> WONTFIX, WORKSFORME, whatever..

Good, closing as WONTFIX.