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From: "Andrey Vul" <andrey.vul@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:23:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e38d12ff0810291923x28587f72nd227cf28ceb7b504@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c30988c30810291844m3f379825kc026b5da4b60f063@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> So what you're saying... is that emerge should have a switch to turn
> on, when using -p, -a, and/or -t, a pager? Particularly one that,
> until you're content with -a in particular, doesn't accidentally have
> a means of handing output back off to the emerge for the yes/no? This
Yes.
> would spare the double run of the dependency checker while giving
> users who want it a pager to use and giving the rest the same
> functionality a simple -a gives now... something like etc-update's use
> of a pager comes to mind. Let's see... -P is taken for --prune ...
> --less/-L or... --more/-m ... --more/-M ? Of course, --pager/-M would
> work too, but it's less intuitive (we already have --unmerge/-C ... so
> why not, I suppose). Not *quite* sure I'm up to the task at the
> moment, though.

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



-- 
Andrey Vul

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-30  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-29 16:33 [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2 Rafael Barrera Oro
2008-10-29 16:41 ` Andrey Vul
2008-10-29 16:56   ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-29 17:03     ` Rafael Barrera Oro
2008-10-29 17:14       ` Andrey Vul
2008-10-29 20:46         ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-29 21:52           ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-29 22:13             ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-29 23:26           ` Andrey Vul
2008-10-30  1:44             ` Joshua Murphy
2008-10-30  2:23               ` Andrey Vul [this message]
2008-10-30 22:55                 ` Joshua Murphy
2008-10-29 19:59       ` Alan McKinnon
2008-10-30 10:39         ` Peter Humphrey

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