From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KvKR1-0001wU-Ja for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:26:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D82A0E032F; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:26:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.168]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4303E032F for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:26:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 29so249023wff.10 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:26:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=SxOx2J71BjVHVEAAI18gRJI1t8HZKeRkTFN1+Zv1MvE=; b=KrzOTNDLp5p+s3xVAgIee+RT/cHHN5w4IgFEOBX55jJemJyxNC1Ja05qiCjFN9CA0H g9DJxJWZ9+4EbrB/fZSdXUbVnYKVQ6oLGsQKzMr0mvyh4AN1qIL/Ti7oJYtohmFbNII3 7mGH3HmtKNckLpTM5QDC68RpoIsvzvErmRcBQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=aQ4q33wr566E+nTfKp2R8/1rNiy4pRb8sXPDPcW1t4bJneSAJYM115/7N4f9Qpk71E KujOhimWldXhJjdYyzc0cQ34nPoBqZ7eGNWhBflO9bo10hvUojRSutVYVGSKiu14zrwJ MhEHN7d1RXUtJv65Gkqq9TQyyM/2bAhMo8744= Received: by 10.142.226.3 with SMTP id y3mr4291583wfg.70.1225322801033; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.40.6 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:26:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:26:40 -0400 From: "Andrey Vul" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2 In-Reply-To: <20081029204634.4ea4e0fa@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200810291856.49988.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20081029204634.4ea4e0fa@digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: a1bcfec3-fcff-4565-9d1d-bf8155f5af5f X-Archives-Hash: ec3a7bacce586009ae155f0fe750615d On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:34 -0400, Andrey Vul wrote: > >> >> emerge -av1 udev >> I prefer emerge -1pv udev >> >> 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 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!! > -- Andrey Vul A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?