Description
Profuse is a full featured USE flag editor for Gentoo Linux, with no less than 3 different front ends: dialog, ncurses and gtk2.
Profuse understands cascading profiles, and can run on a specified profile directory and make.conf path.
The GUIs are optional and detected at run-time (i.e., there are no hard dependencies).
The dialog GUI is very similar to ufed's so that ufed users don't get lost.
Profuse is also a lot of fun to code. It's GPL2 of course.
Profuse's goal is to replace ufed.
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News
2006.02.14 version 0.25.3 : correct bug #122447 : use.defaults is removed in portage version >= 2.1.0
2006.02.01 version 0.25.2 : check portage version for auto USE flag supports (removed for version >= 2.0.54)
2006.01.31 version 0.25.1 : bug correction : active flags were shifted in the ncurses GUI.
2006.01.30 version 0.25.0 : -* is now supported, and ncurses GUI supports colors.
2005.06.20 version 0.23.0 : various small updates
2005.06.02 version 0.22.1 : ncurses search feature
2005.05.13 version 0.21.0 : ncurses GUI and ufed (dialog) GUI
2005.05.08 version 0.20.2 (big bugfixing)
2005.02.17 version 0.17
2005.02.15 version 0.16
2005.01.10 version 0.14
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Internals
- uses libconf to access the configuration files.
Libconf provides a safe, simple yet powerful way to edit
configuration tools. By using it, profuse is simplier and more solid.
- provides gtk2 frontend.
- provides a search feature, to look up use flag or descriptions.
- flags and descriptions can be sorted all way round
- will provide a backend to interface with other tools
- uses gtk2-fu to build the gtk2 interface with less code.
About
- author : dams
- license : GPL-2
Thanks to
- pvdabeel for the profile and use flags explanation
- Ulrich who found the name and spread the word
- Sejo for various help
- lu_zero for continuous support
- seemant for english validation :P
