Gentoo now has a large number of USE flags. It would be a good usability addition if ufed would ask "are you sure" when a person tries to quit after making significant changes. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run ufed 2. make some changes 3. click Exit Actual Results: Ufed quit and reverted my changes. Expected Results: Ufed should have offered to save my changes, giving me the option to save, quit without saving, or cancel the quit.
Sorry -- wanted this in Product: "Gentoo Linux" Component: "Library". Posted in the wrong place by mistake.
That's not possible at the moment. dialog (the tool that displays the list) doesn't tell ufed which items were selected when the user cancels, and there's no way to tell it not to cancel when Escape is pressed. I might do this if I ever manage to replace dialog though.
Ufed should really be removed! It would be better to have it just show the use flags than to change USE="-*" in make.conf. I for myself like to edit my make.conf file (as recommended in all installation manuals). When I now start ufed it doesn't reads in the make.conf while failing to read the missing make.defaults from profiles, which seems to have vanished in newer portage versions. This is error is critical, reproduceable disastrous and not acceptable. Either correct the behaviour of ufed or temporary stop writing files !
"When I now start ufed it doesn't reads in the make.conf while failing to read the missing make.defaults from profiles, which seems to have vanished in newer portage versions." You should post that as a separate bug. Bug 89446 is minor and unrelated to your problem. According to Harald's comment above, I'm closing this bug. Harald, ufed is a useful tool, if you ever do replace dialog, plz reconsider this feature req.
