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

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

El dom, 19-01-2014 a las 11:23 +0100, Alexander Berntsen escribió:
> On 19/01/14 09:01, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > 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.
> You do not understand it correctly. It makes --ask imply
> --autounmask-write.

Ah, nice :)

> 
> > 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.
> There is. Regardless of whether you mean (current) --autounmask or
> (current) --autounmask-write behaviour.
> 
> emerge --ask foo # This won't -write
> emerge --autounmask --pretend foo # Same as the above
> emerge --ask --pretend foo # This won't even offer the suggestions
> 
> Please see [0] for more information.
> 
> [0]  <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481578#c10>

Then, I guess "-ap" would be the equivalent of --autounmask=n and should
behave in the same way, right? In that case, no problem (even if I think
we should document this since using --ask --pretend at the same time
doesn't look so intuitive to me :( )