> > So I will deeply miss flaggie! Despite some issues it is a very > > helpful thing once you know it, e.g. for automated USE flag changes > > over ssh in a server farm. > > Hmm, that's a use case I didn't think of (and I didn't know anyone is > actually using flaggie non-interactively). I guess most of the time you > could get away with something like: > > echo app-foo/bar baz >> /etc/portage/package.use/local.conf > > etc.
Yeah but... flaggie interprets all such files and it is able to keep them clean by just editing it at the right place (well, mostly) instead of having the same package being tweaked at mutiple places back and forth again. > To be honest, I'm thinking of starting from scratch like all cool > programmers do these days. Perhaps I should aim for a very simple tool > that doesn't try to represent all Portage configuration in AST > and instead just does plain manipulations. So perhaps they'll > be a flaggie2 after all. Oh, yes, please. "Just" something that does the monkey work of such flag manipulations. BTW: I'd really love to keep flaggie until there is your cool new flaggie2 and I'm very willing to ignore my bug report: https://bugs.gentoo.org/746542 ;-) Thanks
