From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LqfWT-0004dY-4Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:29:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CD88E0502; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 03:29:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.trelane.net (mail.trelane.net [66.93.203.104]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46606E0502 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 03:29:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.trelane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB561866BA for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:29:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at trelane.net Received: from mail.trelane.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (master.trelane.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id uWqcmtE7+vJr for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:29:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.trelane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92ED11866BB for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:29:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [172.16.1.99] (router.trelane.net [66.93.203.152]) by mail.trelane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20D941866BA for ; Sun, 5 Apr 2009 23:29:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <49D976FD.5060601@trelane.net> Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:29:01 -0400 From: Andrew D Kirch User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090322) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info' References: <20090218232212.5452b86d@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> <20090404144727.2e050cb3@snowcone> <200904041812.19289.bangert@gentoo.org> <200904052242.01082.drizzt@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200904052242.01082.drizzt@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 04af8258-b197-4695-b4a2-154739d05544 X-Archives-Hash: ac26a63a1558bcc0278b092c80b7c2b0 Timothy Redaelli wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2009 18:12:09 Thilo Bangert wrote: > >>> 'guess'. Like how you have to guess what use flags are really being >>> used for the package in question, because it doesn't tell you? >>> >> i'd like to ask the developers of package managers to standardize this. >> having --info be the same no matter who you like best is >> incredibly usefull. >> >> while we are at it, emerge --info output may or may not be made even more >> usefull... >> > > i think it's better to develop an "emerge --info package" like "paludis --info > package". > Since it's better to have an ebuild-scope environment than a global one (for > package.use/bashrc) > > I think it's best as a general rule to NEVER _EVER_ under any circumstances emulate paludis. Andrew