Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

["Joshua Murphy" <poisonbl@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@gmail.com> wrote:
> But I usually use emerge -p > file in order to see the difference in
> dependencies from testing USE flags.
> I would always choose -pN over -aN.
>
> Where's the portage to-do list?
> If you can find it, add these two items:
> fix the uname
> add pager support for -p, -a, -t

Well, I didn't find it with the miserably little effort I put into
looking... so instead, I wrote up a quick hack to emerge to implement
use of a pager any time the internal display() function is called. I
made the mistake of writing it against the 'stable' version of
portage, though... so I'll be (hopefully) porting it over to Portage
2.2_rc12 (the newest my current state of laziness allows on my amd64
machine). Any chance anyone here's a bit more skilled with python than
I am and would want to remind me of all the error checking I left out?
After I get a patch handy, at least...

As for the 'fix the uname' bit... I haven't had a chance to dig
through the changelogs to see the who/when/why of the change that made
it what it is now, and whether (as was clarified as likely in the
related thread here) the current output is what's "intended."

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Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy