On Monday 13 March 2006 05:53, Roy Wright wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >Plus, it's /completely/ trivial to add -* to your USE or (using the great > >euse tool) euse -D <useflag>. Or, for those type A personalities out > >there, tweak your /etc/portage/package.use. > > Another tool is ufed (use flag editor). Nicely combines flag name, set > state, and > brief description. > > From this thread, I realized I hadn't ever reviewed my use flags, just > added ones > as needed for the past 1.5 years. So added the -* to start with. A few > surprises > like tetek. Found a half dozen deprecated flags. Then using ufed I > discovered > several new flags to try. > > This has me wondering if there is a utility to help manage the use > flags. I'd like > to know: > > * Which use flags I have set that are not used by anything I have > installed. * Which use flags are deprecated. > * Which use flags are new. > > Ideally I'd just add this to my daily.cron job. > > Thank you, > Roy Instead of ufed I'd recommend profuse, it has the same options as ufed and more. Really a great tool, very easy to use and gives you a clear list of what use flags you have enabled (I do prefer the ncurses "profuse -n" command above gtk)
-- Rick van Hattem Rick.van.Hattem(at)Fawo.nl
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