Graphical front end for portage.

raid517 · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 946

Hi, well I know some guys will love this and some guys will hate this. Personally though I'm all for choice. But is it possible that someone might come up with a graphical front end for portage? (Maybe someone will tell me that this already exists....) In Red Hat and Madrake update I can see at a glance what's available and select individual files to download and exclude others I dont. Couldn't you just have a script/front end that when you ran it would automatically invoke emerge sync and any other necessay commands and when you select a specific file for download, this could do the same as "emerge package name" or "emerge unmerge package name" without any need to do the typing? This isn't really just about saving time and making things easier (although that always helps) mostly its about beeing able to see what's on portage and utilise the resources it provides efficiently. I wouldn't mind file descriptions for the files on portage either, but I guess that possibly another issue...) The guys who would hate this simply wouldn't have to use it. Like I said, it should be about choice.

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jimlynch11 · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 12:39 am Post subject:

if you have kde-base installed you can try kportage

rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

kportage is the thing you are looking for :)
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Mystilleef · Guru Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 561 Location: Earth

Hello Gents,

Yes, I've heard kportage does some of the functions you mentioned. But I can see you loathe the command line because CLI portage does everything you mentioned. Just wanted to make sure you know CLI portage could do everything you mentioned. That's it. Yes, I recommend Kportage, even though I've never used it, although I use KDE.

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far · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 8:43 am Post subject:

Other portage frontends:
portageMaster
gnoportage
kemerge
gportage (my own)
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jimlynch11 · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 5:21 pm Post subject:

raid517 · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 946

Hmm well I don't mind the CL, but just for speed.... Anyway, I just got round to installing Gentoo on my new system and this time when I tried to install kportage this time I got an error saying:

Ben2040 · Guru Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 445 Location: UK

Hi

Re-merging QT should fix this

Ben