On Saturday, December 15, 2018 3:57:02 AM PST Mikle Kolyada wrote:
> On 15.12.2018 5:00, Georgy Yakovlev wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > while lurking on bugzilla lately I noticed that package part of
> > "emerge --info" output may be lacking in some cases.
> > 
> > Good candidates for adding to that file are:
> > 
> > virtual/rust
> > llvm ?
> > dev-util/meson
> > dev-util/ninja
> > 
> > that should be enough to provide a bit more to initial information without
> > going crazy and clobbering output too much.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Georgy Yakovlev
> > Gentoo Linux Developer
> 
> They all are not way too much spread, especially rust.
> 
> Do not think it worth to include them.
> 
> meson can be reconsidered later, as more and more people are using this one.

meson and ninja come in pair, and:
systemd already depends on both
openrc wants to switch to meson.
many xorg parts depend on meson
mesa & co depends on meson
cmake-utils.eclass defaults to ninja as default makefile generator for EAPI=7

those are damn  good reasons for inclusion, those tools becoming essential.
and it's only couple of lines of text, not a big deal.
and the lines are not shown if package in question is not installed.

having rust in output of initial  --info also can be quite handy as recent 
cargo/rust issue showed but yeah, pkg_info probably could deal with that for 
now at least. not a very popular ebuild function, never knew it existed. 
Thanks  Kent for pointing it out.




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Georgy Yakovlev
Gentoo Linux Developer