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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:15:26 -0400
From: Sandy McArthur <sandymac@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Additional information to output: emerge -pv
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How about making it so you need two -v switchs (eg: -vv) to get the
long listing? I use `emerge world -puv` all the time and don 't want
to have to scroll through so much stuff.
On 8/24/05, Dustin Spicuzza <dustin.spicuzza@wmich.edu> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've been using Gentoo for a couple of years now... and portage was the
> #1 reason I kept using Gentoo over other Linux distros... and why I'm
> still using it.
>
> Something that's always bugged me a lot is USE flags. Which, while I
> think that they are one of the best things about portage, I think that
> they are also one of the more annoying features as well... it can be
> relatively annoying to configure it all up. Especially researching what
> they are... yes, it just takes a little bit of effort to find them, but
> why not make it slightly easier?
>
> Anyways, I made a patch (against Portage 2.0.51.22-r2, attached as
> verbose_use_patch.tar) that adds the description of each USE flag to the
> 'emerge -pv <package>' command. The output for openoffice, for example,
> looks something like this...
>
> [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
> very small, non-invasive patch, and quite small (a routine in
> portage_util.py, and 5 lines of code in emerge).
>
> I attached the patch here because I wasn't quite sure of the proper
> procedure for patch submission... anyways, thanks for all your work!
> Hopefully in the future I can contribute to this project.
>
> Dustin Spicuzza
>
>
>
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