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 1KvL0r-0005Gn-Ca for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:03:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3BF98E03C5; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:03:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.173]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0484DE03C5 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:03:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 29so265535wff.10 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:03:42 -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=IkHgSyrfPh713WsxtI+0s01peg+w6N7RmdJ+Z970UdQ=; b=nIVrnxbBCK3L7TI+oZtJCvHpKQdTSaMjbuRgLYhQZHPLDBXHkt3Ut2axhZg0YS/MHb ID2bR1+CMVeCplni6QU+hYXVzdMcnFN+JU3EELlAnpSAyoIDrRfmAFgJEyN+inLoFoJf 06edFntIP3lRcRWDMZ7WI/HdSPsmCjvL5ou44= 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=SzoJgD8Hdf6MsDrUF2/5WngmPluroBmwQcd+Ynhqf+wAAmurfIjMlfKxrXJd0J647w ufbjKNYH+9dAdGyNBU2t+iz2DhJhSn79gRuGqUA0VvbxwBHYEYp0AvpnBSyWS+Kctj2V tCs8acbwJPlUIpglxavRqLUvHXQj733gOni7c= Received: by 10.142.128.6 with SMTP id a6mr4306021wfd.10.1225325022339; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:03:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.40.6 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:03:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:03:42 -0400 From: "Andrey Vul" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A question about emerge --info In-Reply-To: <350fc7cf0810291657t20e74d6ag70b05bf8e23973ba@mail.gmail.com> 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: <58965d8a0810291553x50e4068ehc58834dfdbce285b@mail.gmail.com> <350fc7cf0810291609v335f4909nbcd90ab7d368cb5d@mail.gmail.com> <350fc7cf0810291623j5fb5608rf311cd0d2a371d2a@mail.gmail.com> <350fc7cf0810291657t20e74d6ag70b05bf8e23973ba@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 48ad1bb3-d01c-477f-80f8-2f697294646d X-Archives-Hash: ac2aadd4896f91adecf20c40af0ce755 > > Good digging around :). So this is a python bug then? Or does portage need > to be update for some change that went into python? Actually, is this really > even a bug...its just a minor cosmetic problem really. > One's bug is another's feature. libc in uname is honestly WTF but this begs the real question: why doesn't portage (emerge and repoman to be specific) simply get the output of uname -a ? It's not written in C, you don't have to mess around with 5-6 fd's to get the needed data. And I think that this is both a design bug and a red herring. By the way, should I make a bug report with a patch to remove this issue? Making it selectable via FEATURES requires more digging around in portage. -- 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?