portagecfg

Utility to write portage configs files in an easy manner.

Dependencies

QtCore

How to set it up

First thing first, get the sources, and get into the sources directory.

git clone https://github.com/brookiestein/portagecfg
cd portagecfg

Then compile it.

mkdir build
cmake -G Ninja -S . -B build -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/usr
cmake --build build

And if you want to just type portagecfg from wherever you are, install it.

sudo cmake --build build --target install

It'll be installed in /usr/bin.

Usage

It's as simple as typing: portagecfg -p sys-kernel/gentoo-sources -u symlink

That will write sys-kernel/gentoo-sources symlink into /etc/portage/package.use/gentoo-sources.

You can write several USE flags using either of these notations:

portagecfg -p app-emulation/qemu --useflags="usbredir alsa bzip2"
portagecfg -p app-emulation/qemu -u usbredir\ alsa\ bzip2

Both are valid ways of passing several values to any of the available options.

You can also combine differents options for the same package, for example:

portagecfg -p app-emulation/qemu --useflags="usbredir alsa bzip2" -k "~amd64"

That'll write app-emulation/qemu usbredir alsa bzip2 into /etc/portage/package.use/qemu, and

app-emulation/qemu ~amd64 into /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/qemu

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