Hi,

I will try to work a little bit on flaggie (I also have not very much
free time, though), I guess you'll continue to accept pull requests for it?

On 06/15/2015 07:54 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
> 
> My time for Gentoo is quite limited right now (you gotta start working
> for money at some point :)), and the little time I have I'm trying to
> use for the Gentoo work I consider most important. This sadly means
> that many of my past tools are earning their share of bitrot and would
> really use a new contributors, or possibly even full-time upstream
> maintainers :).
> 
> Here's a long list of projects along with short description, their state
> and planned TODO items that I won't have time to implement anytime soon.
> 
> 
> app-portage/flaggie
> 
>   The package.use (& make.conf) flag management tool. Pretty high
>   priority.
> 
>   status: rather working, has a few bugs, certainly would use some new
>   Portage features
> 
>   TODO:
>   - remove make.conf editing support (it's very complex and broken --
>     can eat random '$' from the file in some cases),
>   - therefore: edit global flags via '*/*' entries in package.use,
>   - support writing 'FOO_BAR:' format for USE_EXPAND in package.use,
>   - support parsing 'FOO_BAR:' format for USE_EXPAND on command-line
>     (i.e. 'flaggie libfoo VIDEO_CARDS: +radeon -nvidia'),
>   - remove implicit '*' expansion in package names and flag names --
>     package.use can handle '*', so leave it as is and just expand it
>     when checking if the flags are supported,
>   - possibly clean up package.use writer (or rewrite it since I'm
>     no longer able to figure out how it works exactly :)).

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