I observe that the list of useflags grows and grows. To go through all those useflag for example with ufed, read their definitions and then set them can take very long time Therefore, it would be good if there were a tool in portage that has similar functionality as ufed but with an important difference: when one currentl opens ufed, one sees a list of all useflags. I want a command like emerge --edituseflags mypackage1 mypackage2 mypackage3 ..... This command should start a similar program like ufed, but it should show only those useflags for a possible edit which are important for the packages that would be emerged by the command emerge mypackage1 mypackage2 mypackage3 .... currently, we have a feature like emerge -pv that lists the useflags of the packages to be emerged. However, there is no possibility for seeing an immediate a description of these flags and to edit them. At the moment, one has to start another program like ufed and then search the description for every useflag in a large list. The editor ufed should have the possubility to show only those useflags that are important for those packages that will be installed by some emerge command. Reproducible: Always
Thank you that this is assignet now. since i opened this request the useflag list has grown and grown. When installing a system, i believe one only is concerned with the useflags of packages that are to be installed or are installed already. So there must be some way show only the useflags of those packages in ufed.
(In reply to comment #1) > Thank you that this is assignet now. > since i opened this request the useflag list has grown and grown. > When installing a system, i believe one only is concerned with > the useflags of packages that are to be installed or are installed already. > So there must be some way show only the useflags of those packages in ufed. This is discussed in bug 106815. The idea is to add packages to the command line arguments of ufed and have it only show the USE flags relevant for the named packages. Once this functionality is added, portage *might* get such a wrapper argument using ufed. But honestly, I have no idea whether this is a) possible and b) doable.
I think this can be closed, as ufed has a now a functionality to display only those useflags that are used by at least one installed package. so, one can look at only those useflags that are of concern for the gentoo installation at hand.
