On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > I was reading in the eix man page about eix-sync, and it gave about a > million options, but nowhere did I see if give a useable format for the > options,
Quoting from the manpage ..
/etc/eixrc
Global configuration file. The variables in ~/.eixrc or from the
environment can override the variables set in this file.
See ~/.eixrc.
[snip]
~/.eixrc
Per-user configuration file. The variables in this file can be
overridden by environment variables. You can use a shell-like
syntax to set the following variables. ^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^
> I wanted to have a option line setting but I couldn't tell if it was
> like
>
> PRINT_SLOTS=yes or
> PRINT_SLOTS yes or
> PRINT_SLOTS="yes" or
> PRINT_SLOTS "yes"
As said above, eix uses shell-style configuration files so #1 and #3
should be fine.
> There are other permutations. Howcome the man page doesn't give something
> as obvious as that? Darn huge man page, after I initially found the
> PRINT_SLOTS defintion, it took me 10 more minutes to find out that it was
> supposed to go into /etc/eix-sync.
Are you sure? Normally that stuff goes into /etc/eixrc or ~/.eixrc.
> It gives a great amoount of info, but maybe it could stand some better
> organization, to let things get found.
Martin actually acknowledges this problem in the "BUGS" section: "There
are too many features: The documentation and configuration has become
too complicated." So it definitely could.
The *huge* list of variables could be split up into sections, for
example all the "MATCH_*" stuff could go into a section called "Changing
default match-fields".
But this approach is probably be better suited for formats that support
links, so we can have a nice table of contents. info-pages spring to
mind, but I hear many people don't like those.
Another way to reduce the size and complexity could be to split the
whole thing into multiple documents, one for each tool (eix, update-eix,
eix-diff and so on..).
Any thoughts or suggestions on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Emil
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Emil Beinroth
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