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 1C62F138247 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B612E0ABB; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:29:14 +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 5CAC1E0AB9 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:29:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.plaimi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C50E040394 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:29:10 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=plaimi.net; s=leet; t=1385108950; bh=XvHKMAGmTRnmm+ktInNMkv4Ubxrt/qB3BqQz3PEhRnQ=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=TydX6wtzr7kUV6MKTmE4vzY80PkMg53hZh+HKdVuDC7DggVGTMEO6HnQkK+rt/TSU XDxiUh81czp9KdZXNKaf9XBKht19zSRG2gArJ5I2RkdXYAIYVxfP4LQ8qEBR/VHU6X /EhAm4viMpo2jZRld7fI6cjVl78HoCQIMVemjzhE= Message-ID: <528F15D8.8030308@plaimi.net> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:29:12 +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> <528E1776.1030908@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: 6f5713f5-420e-4748-a6c2-cc9b02c67f1c X-Archives-Hash: 97e4f878302057314fd16fb662b4c882 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlKPFdgACgkQRtClrXBQc7XSjQD9EfBS9cZ03UMoXYgp34oXUuPy 52w+qnyR3ruRd6FevrsBAK7imsn07qL0FeQbSJZAVoLXafauFPoiRJsoUBlZAIpQ =jziW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----