On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:12:44AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Wonder why it is not being kept up to date. Maintainer no longer > interested in it, other tools took its place???
The code developer is a Gentoo developer. I've looked at the C (one file) and
it's not particularly good code; 100+ line functions with a few memory
leaks and generally poor C-programming practices. I would advise against using
it, especially considering that it doesn't provide any functionality over
grepping through use{,.local}.desc or using the on-line index.
It also has a few other silly bugs [1] and quirks; I'd be very dissatisfied if a
programmer under my (hypothetical) employment wrote such code.
The maintainer/developer also seems to have a very carefree attitude to serious
bug reports, such as replying with "euses checks for an environment variable
PORTDIR. Does this help?" to the report regarding his tool relying heavily on
deprecated features.
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/715748
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