Re: [gentoo-user] paludis vs emerge

[Brian Marshall <snail@beyondboredom.net>]

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:30:55 -0500
David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com> wrote:

> I've been experimenting with paludis for the last month or two to
> compare it with emerge.  For my periodic "update world" runs the two
> programs seem functionally comparable.  Paludis is, however, more
> verbose and I'm not liking that aspect.
> 
> My typical emerge command is "emerge -auDtqv world" and produces:
> 
>   [ebuild   UD] kde-base/kde-3.5.7 [3.5.8] USE="..." 
>   [ebuild   U ] sys-apps/paludis-0.26.0_alpha9 [0.26.0_alpha7]
> USE="..." [noomerge   ] kde-base/kde-3.5.7 [3.5.8] USE="..." 
>   [nomerge    ] sys-apps/paludis-0.26.0_alpha9 [0.26.0_alpha7] ...
>   [ebuild   U ]  dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 [1.34.1-r1] ...
>   [ebuild   UD] app-misc/mime-types-5 [7] ..
> 
>   Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no
> 
>   Quitting.
> 
> I like the one brevity as I can see a lot of information and then
> decide whether to go ahead or not.
> 
> "paludis --show-use-descriptions none -p -i world" lets me see
> what's going to happen.  On the down side, I need to run it a
> second time (without the "-p") to install the packages.  Also,
> paludis first prints a bunch of informational messages and then
> prints 4 info lines per package.
> 
> Have I overlooked an option comparable to "--ask" ?
> 
No, Paludis is non-interactive.

> Have I overlooked an option to suppress the initial messages.
> 
Use --compact to compress the package output and --log-level to control
the amount of informational messages.

> Thanks.
> 
> David



	Brian

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