Bug 52569

Summary:	GUI for portage similiar to fedora2 package managment
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Alex <avg>
Component:	Core - External Interaction	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	VERIFIED LATER
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Alex 2004-05-31 09:08:46 UTC

http://www.madpenguin.org/images/reviews/fedora2/addremove.png

my idea was to make something similiar, which will stay up-to-date via. packages.gentoo.org .

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-05-31 10:13:00 UTC

portagemaster / kportage exist but both appear to be dead projects

Comment 2 Alex 2004-05-31 16:02:17 UTC

i was hoping to something that will be built in within portage and kept up-to-date from a pure text stream instead of searching everything on HD.
perhaps something similiar to RSS feed, from packages.gentoo.org, which is up-to-date all the time.
time--stamps could be used to determine if a sync is needed, etc.

Comment 3 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-06-01 06:45:14 UTC

Err, why packages.gentoo.org?  For emerging, the ebuild would still have to exist locally.  You're also assuming that you can fetch *just* the ebuild; what about deps that have changed.

Aside from that, gui frontend ought to be doable w/ the portageapi once it's stabilized, although code contributions help in getting the ball rolling.

Comment 4 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2005-10-11 21:50:52 UTC

The API is being implemented, but won't be available for quite some time.  
Marking it LATER.

Comment 5 Paul Varner (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-04-08 16:39:22 UTC

Current portage GUI's in the tree include app-portage/porthole and app-portage/portato.