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

["Andrey Vul" <andrey.vul@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:34 -0400, Andrey Vul wrote:
>
>> >> emerge -av1 udev
>> I prefer emerge -1pv udev
>> <look at output>
>> emerge -1 udev
>
> Which means you have to wait for the dependency resolver to run twice.
> Which is why it's better to use
>
> emerge -1av udev
> look at output
> press enter
I don't like package managers which require interactivity.
emerge -uvDp world | less is easier to parse then emerge -upDa world.
Why? Because I don't have to find a way of transferring <return> if
less handles all of the keyboard input.
So I prefer two stages:
1) pretend merge  - single verbosity - and look at output
2) actual merge - normal / quiet - and pipe to tee

> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> If it ain't broke, wait a day or two!!
>



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