From: Alexander Berntsen <alexander@plaimi.net>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [PATCHES] Remove --autounmask, rename --autounmask-write to --autounmask
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:29:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528F15D8.8030308@plaimi.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan$e4dbc$26d1e5f7$40d99c24$47d12391@cox.net>
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On 22/11/13 06:37, Duncan wrote:
> emerge --ask foo would also do what is currently done by: emerge
> --ask --autounmask-write foo
>
> Which is exactly what I said, and what you're now saying it won't
> do, while pointing at comment 10 which says exactly the opposite.
You don't understand what this does. Please try it.
>
> It's that change in behavior based on comment 10 that I'm most
> protesting, since I depend on being able to tell portage to go
> ahead with the merges if they look good (thus the --ask), but under
> *NO* circumstances do I want it writing its changes to the various
> use/mask files.
It doesn't.
> The only way you propose to do that in comment 10 is with
> --pretend, which would be a seriously negative change in behavior
> for my use-case, since it would require having portage recalculate
> the dependencies it's just calculated with the --pretend, without
> it. --ask currently avoids that situation, since when I'm happy
> with the output, I can simply let it go ahead.
You don't understand how --autounmask and --autounmask-write works, or
I don't understand what you mean. Please try
=www-client/firefox-24.1.1 --autounmask=y --ask
# Assuming you are on a stable system, if not, try another package.
- --
Alexander
alexander@plaimi.net
http://plaimi.net/~alexander
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-22 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-21 9:21 [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCHES] Remove --autounmask, rename --autounmask-write to --autounmask Alexander Berntsen
2013-11-21 11:19 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] " Duncan
2013-11-21 12:03 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-11-21 13:34 ` Duncan
2013-11-21 14:23 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-11-22 5:37 ` Duncan
2013-11-22 8:29 ` Alexander Berntsen [this message]
2013-11-21 16:30 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] " Paul Varner
2013-11-21 16:46 ` Alexander Berntsen
2013-11-21 21:05 ` Paul Varner
2013-11-21 20:06 ` Zac's status (Was: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCHES] Remove --autounmask, rename --autounmask-write to --autounmask) Pacho Ramos
2013-11-22 8:51 ` Alexander Berntsen
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