My opinion is that USEflags are so numerous and different (and often a single USEflag has a different meaning for different packages

That's why I want to build a per-package useflag editor.


that any attempt at an user-friendly flag editor like ufed is predestined to be unusable


Yep, I ...

you mention that you know about $PORTDIR/profiles/use.local.desc -- that coupled with $PORTDIR/profiles/use.desc should cover all of the available use flags for any given application -- a simple script using euse would probably be a step in the direction you were looking for?

not really, use.desc ...

As a summer project I wanted to build a simple editor for /etc/portage/package.use but I'm not sure whether it's worth the effort.

Are per-application use-flags stored in any other place than the individual ebuilds? (it would take ages to read all ebuilds and assemble a database, and it would have ...

Enotice should be on the top of the list of features that must be integrated into portage.

Great, enotice does the job just fine. Why is this not default behaviour? especially since it is apperently so simple to implement?

I just did an emerge -u world and noticed that 4 out of the 20 builds had something to say after compilation. I checked emerge.log but it only logs the names of the packages, install time etc.. the most important bit, the package information being left out.

Would it be possible to get emerge to log ...

Ok, thanks for the confirmation. That's what I expected.

pretty much default really:

-mcpu=athlon-tbird -march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -m3dnow -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer

Hi there,

Since I will receive my new computer soon, I wanted to ask whether it is possible to make gentoo recompile all of its packages and whether that even makes sense. My current machine is an old Athlon T-Bird 800@1000 and the new machine will be an Athlon XP 3200+, for which some special ...