Suggestions for Browsing Portage Packages Without Porthole?

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jagdpanther · Post by **jagdpanther** » Mon Feb 17, 2020 5:29 pm

Does anyone have any suggestions for browsing packages in Portage now that porthole is going away?

!!! The following installed packages are masked:
- app-portage/porthole-0.6.1-r5::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> (2020-02-17)
# Unmaintained.  Last release in 2009.  Python 2 only, depends on dead
# dev-python/pygtk and dev-python/pygtksourceview.  Multiple unresolved
# bugs including crashes.
# Removal in 30 days.  Bug #708096.

Post by **fedeliallalinea** » Mon Feb 17, 2020 5:41 pm

Via command line eix is a perfect tool, or via web https://packages.gentoo.org/

jagdpanther · Post by **jagdpanther** » Mon Feb 17, 2020 6:44 pm

Via command line eix is a perfect tool,

I agree and when I know the name of the package I want I only use eix. I used porthole when I want to brows a category. For example if I want a new calculator I look at sci -> calculators in porthole and see 18 of them.

Before I sent the above I checked the eix man page and 'eix --help' and it looks like I can do the same thing in eix:
'eix -A sci-calculator' shows all 18 of them.

Porthole RIP.

Post by **fedeliallalinea** » Mon Feb 17, 2020 6:53 pm

You can also use eix -S calculator

jfp · Post by **jfp** » Mon Feb 17, 2020 10:46 pm

If your willing to browse via your browser try this: http://gpo.zugaina.org/
It has search and browse by category. Plus when you find what your looking for it shows not only what's in the Gentoo portage tree, but also many other overlays. I've been using it for years. It's great.

Elleni · Post by **Elleni** » Tue Feb 18, 2020 7:36 pm

I have not installed it anymore, but maybe kuroo ?

Muso · Post by **Muso** » Tue Feb 18, 2020 7:49 pm

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ls /var/db/repos/gentoo

When looking for terminals :

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ls /var/db/repos/gentoo/x11-terms

Then use eix for details.

Goverp · Post by **Goverp** » Wed Feb 19, 2020 9:31 am

Assuming python 2.7 isn't actually going away, (and I guess portage's reliance thereon means it isn't), I'll continue to use porthole. It's not like it's had much maintenance in the past maye 5 years. Mind you, I don't ever use it to actually install stuff, but it's very handy to see what changes the latest sync has thrown up or browse the package tree looking for interesting stuff.

Has anyone looked at integrating portage into the KDE "discover" tool? I tried playing with it some time ago, though it might have been on Arch, not Gentoo, and it didn't appear much good, but that's history.

C5ace · Post by **C5ace** » Wed Feb 19, 2020 9:59 am

I just converted the *.py files from Python 2.7 to 3.6 using the "2to3" converter that is part of Python 3.6. Was a piece of cake. The next step will be to get this Python mess to compile. I have never done anything in Python and may need some help.

Post by **asturm** » Wed Feb 19, 2020 12:58 pm

Goverp wrote:Assuming python 2.7 isn't actually going away, (and I guess portage's reliance thereon means it isn't)

Portage does *not* rely on 2.7, and the interpreter is not the only problem here, as the mask message reveals:

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Python 2 only, depends on dead dev-python/pygtk and dev-python/pygtksourceview.

wjb · Post by **wjb** » Wed Feb 19, 2020 4:22 pm

The porthole GUI is made with "pygtk", which is python2.7 only and probably doomed..

Porting python first and then trying to replace the GUI, means working with non-functioning code for as long as it takes.

I think doing it the other way round would allow it to be changed incrementally

The upgrade path from pygtk appears to be pygobject (I know nothing about GTK). Pygobject is available for python 2.7 and 3.*, which means being able to update the GUI in a working (python2.7) application.
Once the GUI has been updated and is in a working state, its (just ) the python that needs to be worked on.

On the other hand, app-portage/kuroo is a reasonably ok standin for porthole.

Post by **asturm** » Wed Feb 19, 2020 4:27 pm

I agree that providing life support and fixes to kuroo where needed is time better spent.

lindegur · Post by **lindegur** » Fri Feb 21, 2020 11:59 am

In the past I used portato, himerge, kuroo and now porthole.
Since it looks that porthole will disappear due to python2, I emerged now kuroo.
It has a lot of dependencies to KDE so 78 packages got emerged

Kuroo started fine.

I also checked http://gpo.zugaina.org/ and also this looks very nice.

However I also like to see what files got installed on my system and not just look what is available.
Kuroo seems to do the job well.

A.S. Pushkin · Post by **A.S. Pushkin** » Wed Mar 04, 2020 4:35 am

I have used Kuroo in the past and liked it, but went to Porthole for quick browsing. I'm sorry to see it go.
I'll try Kuroo again, but I moved to XFCE a couple of years ago due to all the dependency issues with KDE.

I've wanted to learn Python, now perhaps I must so that I'll understand how it integrates with the system.

Thanks to the developers that kept Porthole working all this time. It was a great tool
and it will be missed.

до свида́ния