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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:23:28 -0400
From: "Andrey Vul" <andrey.vul@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2
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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
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