Where to get generate_use and genview?

Paidhi

Hi everybody!

In the german Linux-Magazin there was an article about Gentoo.
It had screenshots of two interesting tools:

generate_use - a use flag generator
genview - a package browser

I searched portage and Freshmeat.
Can anyone tell me where these tools can be found?

Thanks,
Markus
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mikulus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 77

Paidhi,

I would suggest contacting the author of the article in Linux-Magazin. Then, please post a reply to this forum. I also searched for these tools after seeing this post, but I can't find anything.
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mikulus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 77

OK, I was able to find some information:

Genview is writen by foser@sesmar.eu.org. It can be downloaded from http://www.sesmar.eu.org/genview.tar.bz2. He doesn't have an ebuild yet but if you let him know and there is enough interest he will make one.

generate-use is written by bob@endlessrecursion.net. I am not sure where you can download it. I will email e-mail the author and request an ebuild. You can do the same.

Both apps are written in Python.
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mikulus · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 77

generate-use can be downloaded and installed from

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2748
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Paidhi · Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2002 5:07 am Post subject:

Hi,

thanks a lot for your help.
http://www.sesmar.eu.org seems to be unavailable.

I've meanwhile contacted the authors, too.

Best regards,
-Markus-
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Paidhi · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 5:53 pm Post subject:

I was contacted by both the authors.
The tools are under development.

More about Genview is in Bug #2846 at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2846

-Markus-
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