The make.conf.example that comes with the stage1 mentions 'ufed', but in order to install this in order to edit the use flags during stage1 involves installing a whole heck of a lot of dependencies (which will only get reinstalled again after the bootstrap and emerge system in order to use the flags now set). It would be nice if there could be a program available in stage1 that would work like ufed but be statically linked (or require only those libraries available in stage1). Is there one already, and if not, could ufed (statically-linked, or something similar) be added? I don't know if anyone raised this issue before, a search didn't turn anything up. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Gentoo from Stage 1 2. Edit USE flags manually 3. Actual Results: Nothing. It's just tedious. Expected Results: Made it easier to edit use flags.
When ufed was dialog-based, we had it. However, someone decided that ufed should be re-written in perl, which we do not have in stage1. It really boils down to the fact that there is no use flag editor that will work on such a minimal system. Until there is one, this is remaining as RESOLVED-LATER simply because we won't perform a major modification of the stages nor the LiveCD to accomodate a single package (ufed)... not to mention that ufed is completely busted on cascaded profiles.
