From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8Jh6-0003bK-Bg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:31:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7PFRhkR020977; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:27:43 GMT Received: from buggy.blubb.ch (range21-65.shlink.ch [217.148.7.65]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7PFRgJa003974 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:27:42 GMT Received: from aqua ([192.168.10.5]) by buggy.blubb.ch with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1E8ESd-0002jK-Tx for gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:55:51 +0200 Message-ID: <430D964F.9090905@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:58:39 +0200 From: Simon Stelling User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Additional information to output: emerge -pv References: <430D29C3.5010004@wmich.edu> In-Reply-To: <430D29C3.5010004@wmich.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e738549b-08fa-4ad8-b9a2-48bf47683560 X-Archives-Hash: d464ebb61aa9dea67244d3404bca03ac Hi, Dustin Spicuzza wrote: > [ebuild N ] app-office/openoffice-1.1.4-r1 -curl -hardened -java > +kde -nptl +zlib 215,331 kB > * curl - Adds support for client-side URL transfer library > * hardened - activate default security enhancements for toolchain > (gcc, glibc, binutils) > * java - Adds support for Java > * kde - Adds support for kde-base/kde (K Desktop Enviroment) > * nptl - Enable support for Native POSIX Threads Library, the new > threading module (requires linux-2.6 or better usually) > * zlib - Adds support for zlib (de)compression > > And, it does this for each package (only for verbose obviously) Its a Does it repeat the same use flags over and over again for each package, or just explain it once? Also, does it distinguish local from global use flags? I didn't have a look at the code, but keep in mind that local use flags may have different meanings although they're used for more than one package. Also, i (personally) don't like this feature, but i use -v *always*, so I suggest you make it only print the explanation if -pvv is given. Regards, -- Simon Stelling Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead blubb@gentoo.org -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list