Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/3] emerge: Deprecate --autounmask

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

El dom, 19-01-2014 a las 01:21 +0100, Alexander Berntsen escribió:
> Remove the --autounmask option from emerge. Please note that removing
> the option does not mean that the variable used for keeping track of
> autounmasking is not removed from depgraph.py.

If I understand the change correctly (I don't know much about python
but, but per the diff, looks like you are dropping the option and making
the code behave like it's always 'True'), seems that you are forcing
autounmask to be on always.

Even if I use this in all my systems (passing it in by default emerge
opts), I think we still need a way to disable it sometimes. For example,
I need that when portage shows me really strange error messages. I
remember this was an old bug related with backtracking, but can't find
it just now (it should contains quite a few duplicates) :S

I am referring to that kind of errors that reports the wrong package as
being the culprit of some conflict