I have no technical opinion about this app but I will say that: 1) It showed up in my GMail spam folder which is uncommon for me on this list, and...
2) The idea of end-users installing ebuilds themselves from an unknown individual delivered through an email list is about as insane as it could be. Just what I need is an untested ebuild that I install and build myself stealing everything on my system. As a user and someone who cares about Gentoo I'd like to see ALL ebuilds banned from this list. Only takes one bad seed and one not-very knowledgeable user like me to give the distro a black eye it doesn't deserve. Yeah, I'm paranoid... Cheers, Mark On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas <roni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello fellows, > > I already sent this e-mail to Dev ML but I decided to sent it also to user ML > to get more feedbacks. > > I started to code a new application to make some daily tasks easier with > portage. It is called KPortageTray. > > It is coded with PyKDE, so, unfortunately (or fortunately :D) you will need > PyKDE and KDE to install it. > I'm not sure if I make something that will need portage 2.2, if anyone can > tell me I'll appreciate. > > By now, I just implemented some very common tasks like: > > - Sync portage tree; > - Upgrade world set; > - Check if there are upgrade available; > * I'll make something to schedule it in future versions. > - Upgrade portage version; > - Run etc-update, revdep-rebuild or execute dep-clean at the system. > > I used a very simple approach: for every actions that the user must see the > output, a script execute a konsole with kdesu. With this way, isn't necessary > to run the application as root which, in my opinion, is better. > > This application can save some typing with daily tasks, but it will never > substitute CLI, since some complicate things is very hard to handle. For > example, if there are some Block, KPortageTray warning the user, show the > output from emerge and let the user resolve it. But, since it is very uncommon > to have a Block, this software can really save some time. > > I make some tests but it is at the beginning of development, so I'm asking for > help do add new features / give ideas / report bugs. If the community like it, > maybe I'll open a git repository somewhere. > > I took three screenshots: > > http://yfrog.com/7akportagetray01p > http://yfrog.com/11kportagetray02p > http://yfrog.com/b6kportagetray03p > > And I'm attaching tarball and ebuild (80KiB ~) and I would appreciate if > someone test it and give me a feedback :) > > My future plans is to make possible to use just PyQT instead PyKDE or make a > version using PyGTK. > > But, remember, I have started the development on Saturday, so you probably > will found bugs and problems. > > Regards, > -- > Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas > Control and Automation Engineer > Gentoo Foundation Member >
