GUI for make.conf?

agrypa1 · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2005 Posts: 244

Hi,
"man make.conf" produces so many features portage can use that one wonders why there is no such thing like an ncurses or qt/gtk gui for portage? It would be so much easier to remember those variables and how they can affect the system.... and so on.
For example FEATURES="" has a veriety of options about which many forget.

Do you guys know of any such thing?

Thanks

Agryppa
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charles17 · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2008 Posts: 3684

Imho it doesn't need very much in make.conf and if one needs to find out which variables exist, just run "emerge --info"
Even with a gui the unexperienced users will wonder what all those variables and their possible values are good for.

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Roman_Gruber · Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 3:43 pm Post subject:

Ufed is a program to change your useflags of /etc/make.conf

for the other make.conf parameters just use nano and check google what tehy do.

Genone · Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:12 am Post subject:

Simple reasons:
a) Lots of (maintenance) work for almost no benefit.
b) Quite a few (more) people would mess with stuff they don't understand