From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E438B138247 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:23:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AD8AE0A94; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:23:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.plaimi.net (107.4.189.109.customer.cdi.no [109.189.4.107]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2C11E0A89 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.plaimi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B4D2640702 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:23:48 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=plaimi.net; s=leet; t=1385043828; bh=5e0LDZlrGuoZwOq+x8NylJ2yghHGjedjNP1tHu5Gpeg=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=eUvzEJTUH81q+DTpJfTtxaU/Bz4FMZTKFhU9nFgHYyhyZUYXwZ4Sb3fgZ0Qku0TsY 8Xbu/IPVDrf+CeWdUmhdWgOHaWYV41id8GB1xpRABKUGnEBUl3QR1loocXq+rt6TBz LloM814VVqr3Pgy3fYshjZLaQY4On11Uyqvbqzpo= Message-ID: <528E1776.1030908@plaimi.net> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:23:50 +0100 From: Alexander Berntsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131001 Thunderbird/17.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.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] Re: [PATCHES] Remove --autounmask, rename --autounmask-write to --autounmask References: <528DD07E.3010603@plaimi.net> <528DF698.6090203@plaimi.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f58b04b2-81ce-4a5a-b1fd-842fcb9f7b82 X-Archives-Hash: edbb2d80a87977af400d28c3d3abb263 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 21/11/13 14:34, Duncan wrote: > I read comment 10, and am objecting based on it You have fundamentally misunderstood everything in it. Please reread it. > 1) Because the dependency calculations take time, I normally use > --ask so I don't have to have portage redo those calculations if I > like what its telling me it's going to do. > > 2) Under no circumstances do I want portage rewriting masks, etc, > on its own, not even with config-protect. > > 3) Despite that, I find the suggestions it makes saying what it > /thinks/ it needs unmasked useful -- I just want to write them to > the file I want, with the comment I want (sometimes with a bit > different atom, too), which portage wouldn't do. All of this is irrelevant to my patches. > 4) You're saying emerge --ask foo would write the config No. Please read comment 10[0]. > 5) There needs to be a way to get portage's current emerge --ask > --autounmask foo (without --autounmask-write) There is. This doesn't change in my patches. Please read the code or comment 10[0]. > I'd tend to agree, but in that case, why are you wanting to do away > with the ability to have portage spit out its opinion, without > having portage actually do the write, while using --ask? Because it can be done without --ask. See comment 10[0]. [0] - -- Alexander alexander@plaimi.net http://plaimi.net/~alexander -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlKOF3YACgkQRtClrXBQc7XcYgD/bW0XXYgXwkA7CvtFVCphboxd MQNdi8HTZ3SCP8N+mRIBAIEhlHJsmtLqhreJNNWc+0KeSOR0IaOoXz0J16kAjF8c =Te1c -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----