Script to find which USE flags have changed since emerge.

[dma]

Note: this was originally posted in:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=48627

I wanted to know which USE flags had changed since compilation of a package because I've changed a lot of flags and wanted my system to reflect those changes. I did NOT want to re-merge everything because that would cause lots of problems and take forever.

So I spent a few hours in the computer lab sshed into my box and made this (my first and rather ugly python program):

Screenshot (Win32 PuTTY, Fixedsys):
[img:cc77263639]http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~danderse/images/usechange2.png[/img:cc77263639]

Source code:
http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~danderse/www/usechange.

I included the ebuild file so that it could be passed to emerge as an argument to force updating of a different slot.

I don't believe it handles flags like "-quicktime" correctly. It might crash on some occasions. It isn't as customizable as I'd like. However, I'm currently too busy to fix these things.

This functionality might be hidden somewhere in emerge and if it is I'm sorry I bothered everyone with this. Feel free to mess with this or steal it.

[plate]