Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Autounmask changes

[Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@gentoo.org>]

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On 13/08/14 18:45, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> Actually, re-reading your patches again, your patches actually made
>  more sense to me finally.  You were fixing it to make implied 
> behavior the actual behavior.  So while I was originally objecting
> to them, then was not opposing them (last time we discussed
> inclusion), I now see them much clearer and agree with them.
> 
> The --ask implying --autounmask-write is something people would not
>  object to so strongly like they did to your original patchset.
Let's merge the bug fix (see the other thread) first. I can still
prepare the other patches if you think that's worthwhile, but I prefer
keeping them separated from that very simple bugfix patch.


One thing that needs discussion is what to do with the current
behaviour of --autounmask, i.e. printing the suggestions. One thing
that was really weird in my original patches (the ones in this thread)
is this:

emerge foo # this will do what --autounmask does today
emerge foo --autounmask # this will do what --autounmask-write does
emerge foo -a # this will do what --ask --autounmask-write does
emerge foo --autounmask=n # this will do what --autounmask=n does

The problem here is that there is no way to do e.g. emerge foo --ask,
and get suggestions any longer. You can either have it prompt to write
stuff, or you can have it not do anything -- but you can't explicitly
have it suggest stuff without prompting to write. This is bad design.

So either I need to implement tri-state (--autounmask can be yes, no,
suggest), or I need to do something more drastic.

Suggestions welcome.
- -- 
Alexander
bernalex@gentoo.org
https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander
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