From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8IWx-0007x6-T5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:16:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7PEETMj027788; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:14:29 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.197]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7PEECP5015990 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:14:28 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id v1so220289nzb for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:15:26 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DeWvNgSNmN94zCYV8aGH/dVaFYy2ieMdjnSE9VCxeWtIivrZHU4fnniOxebW5tZcs7jgbNa4fX09qnrEGGt5a8yDqogDdn/7inzj+AMdFJdGbSSVCRbrYy3Pa+1hm2Q7kxy5Dd6S3Xcxw84M0Pqk5mE5ks0lmuJ1g4GM1KZ8zNA= Received: by 10.36.97.8 with SMTP id u8mr83339nzb; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:15:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.105.18 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:15:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6bde122b05082507152a9f4d01@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:15:26 -0400 From: Sandy McArthur Sender: sandymac@gmail.com To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Additional information to output: emerge -pv In-Reply-To: <430D29C3.5010004@wmich.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <430D29C3.5010004@wmich.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7PEECP5015990 X-Archives-Salt: d7740900-6160-4f8e-aa7e-d2c1a444b399 X-Archives-Hash: 239e0c19219ba5b8eaf15a6bae72d4c1 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 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 ' 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 > > > -- Sandy McArthur "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." -- Thomas Jefferson -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list