Bug 52221 – Support for /etc/portage/package.use in ufed

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Daniel Wirengren 2004-05-27 15:37:38 UTC]

It would be nice if ufed had support for changing USE-flags in /etc/portage/package.use.

One solution could be to extend ufed with a argument of a package name.
Ufed then only shows the relevant USE-flags in it's listing and lets the user set them.
Then ufed changes the /etc/portage/package.use accordingly.

There was a short discussion on gentoo-dev about this.
"[gentoo-dev] ufed / USE-Flags Grouping Suggestion"

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Frank Benkstein 2004-08-13 07:52:24 UTC]

I second that and I think there should also be a flag that no local flags
are shown in ufed (or that be the default) and that ufed only changes them when
called with a package name as argument as suggested by the OP.

[Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-12-08 19:47:07 UTC]

ufed is unmaintained and dying, it will be replaced by other tools soon that should have this functionality.

[Comment 3 Frank Benkstein 2004-12-08 20:11:58 UTC]

Could you please point me to any of these other tools?
I really liked ufed b/c it only had three dependencies
(or so) and so was useable even before "emerge system".

Thanks.

[Comment 4 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2004-12-08 20:52:29 UTC]

The one that is in portage is app-portage/profuse, another one that will get in the future is http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hays/pufed.py

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-02-23 10:17:12 UTC]

*** Bug 211163 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***