USE flag organization.

[Circuitsoft]

Came up with a way to keep my use flags a little more readable. Wonder what everyone else thinks:

USE="gtk qt qt3 qt4 fltk tk neXt -gnome -kde startup-notification fontconfig" # Desktop Options
USE="$USE mmx sse alsa -oss dbus hal fam acpi caps pcmcia disk-partition X xv opengl xcomposite fbcon directfb ieee1394" # Platform
USE="$USE ldap samba slp kerberos winbind sasl srp authdaemond avahi gnutls httpd upnp network" # Networking options
USE="$USE vim-syntax bash-completion plugins spell nsplugin skins encode" # App Options
USE="$USE audiofile libsamplerate sndfile sdl imlib t1lib lcms cairo glitz" # Media Libraries
USE="$USE xml truetype pango libnotify xcb djbfft bzip2 rle gd expat sqlite" # Other Libraries
USE="$USE cscope gs graphviz tcl jack" # Application support
USE="$USE jpeg jbig jpeg2k exif svg png mng gif tiff djvu wmf pdf xpm xface fpx hdri openexr q8 q32" # Image formats
USE="$USE mpeg theora win32codecs x264 xvid quicktime real" # Video formats
USE="$USE a52 aac amr dts flac mod mp3 musepack speex vorbis" # Audio formats
USE="$USE cdda daap dc1394 dvb dvd live matroska ogg rtsp shout stream vcd cddb" # Media containers/transports

[omp]

Pretty nice, I must say.

I personally have nowhere near as many global USE flags set, so I just keep it in one long alphabetised line, with flags that are on and flags that are off separated.
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[Deem3n]

Thanks for sharing.
My use flag organisation:
http://video4admin.com/stuff/make.conf

[Circuitsoft]

[rgk]

mine is a complete mess, i have been wanting to organize it but i never did, i will now
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[enderandrew]

I used to use a similar method, but these days I just sort them alphabetically rather than in groups.
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[steveL]

Nice :-)

You can use: USE+="blah blah" in bash (which all ebuilds are.)
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[pdr]

I also alphabetize (easier to find if a flag is in there or not), but recently went to multiple lines in my workstation by using line continuation (backslash as last character on the line) - made it easier to edit than hitting 'b' or 'e' in command mode a whole bunch of times in vi.. Example:

[d2_racing]

Yeah, this is a great idea...a saw a lot a personal variable, but the use=#use + your use flag is great !

[aidanjt]

/etc/portage/package.use/${major-grouping}.use

make.conf sucks for anything but globally applicable USE flags options, and ufed does a fine job of managing them. :/
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[steveL]

[jabol]

And I use euse . You may imagine how does this look like

[hielvc]

[Suicidal]

Wow my laziness knows no bounds, I just use ufed to manage $USE

[aidanjt]

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[steveL]

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[Tolstoi]

I just ordered my use flags in make.conf alphabetically recently, that does it for me.

[libero]

FYI

Made this handy script last year: hope you can use it too:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-407903-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html

quick one-line command to reorder USE flags alphabetically, which you can then paste back into your make.conf

Leo

[steveL]

[Kyro]

Mine's ordered the following way

1_USE="3dnow 3dnowext 7zip"
A_USE="a52 aac ace acpi (etc...)"
B_USE="bash-completion bcmath (etc...)"
down to
Z_USE="zip zlib"
and
EX_USE="-arts"
where I put stuff I explicitly don't want. This is then followed by a simple:

USE="${A_USE} ${B_USE} ${C_USE} ... ${Z_USE} ${EX_USE}" line, which gathers it all together.

Makes it easy to read and easy to manage, in my opinion.
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[ocin]

I use ufed :p