Bug 23153 – USE flags selection menu

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Andreas Klauer 2003-06-19 22:19:23 UTC]

The USE flags thing is a nice way of gentoo to handle things; 
the list of flags gets longer, it is however still too short, 
but already uncomfortable to handle. 
 
Browsing through the list of flags is hard work, 
especially since most flags are sparely documented 
or not at all explained. 
 
What I would like to see is a configuration software, 
that helps selecting the flags. It could be a curses-based 
GUI, like the kernels 'menuconfig' thingy. 
 
There, flags could be selected, the user could get help 
for each flag easily (even longer help, which currently 
would make the plain list even harder to read). Flags 
could be categorized; such as database-, security-, 
X-, hardware- and whatnot-oriented flags. 
 
Flags, which only have any effect when other flags 
are also used, could be hidden until the other 
flags are selected; 
 
Lots more new flags could be introduced, making 
the system much more customizable and thus 
more powerful, which is currently not possible 
because the list would grow too big. 
 
Sorry for the bad description; 
hope you get the idea anyways.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2003-07-09 12:35:48 UTC]

`emerge ufed`