Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info'

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>]

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On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:22:12 +0100
Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Paludis users often seem to think that `paludis --info' and `emerge
> --info' are interchangeable, whereas a quick inspection reveals to
> even the most casual user that the former only intends to inform about
> paludis' own compile time and run time configuration, whereas the
> latter includes information about a number of critical system
> packages, the global USE and USE_EXPAND variables and GENTOO_MIRRORS
> variable, to name a few.

...which is why you ask for 'paludis --info pkg', not 'paludis --info'.
That way you get accurate information about pkg, even when users have
per-package use flags configured. Much more useful than Portage's
misleading output, which just gives global configuration and
completely ignores everything else.

Heck, Paludis even tells you this if you run --info without a spec:

> No packages were specified on the command line, so detailed
> information is not available (Paludis can display detailed information
> for both installed and installable packages).

Please try harder next time.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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