Duncan wrote: > My thinking too, until I saw the portage dev (JStubbs?) mention it wasn't > needed. > > I believe the thinking is that emerge --ask is basically emerge --pretend > with an opportunity to continue stuck on the end, thus eliminating running > the same command only without the --pretend again, therefore eliminating > running portage's dep calculation step twice, once for the pretend, then > again for the run.
Okay, but I'd say that Portage internals like if the the same code gets used by --ask and --pretend are not relevant for this GLEP. Why don't add a note specifying the correct behavior? Cheers, -jkt -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth
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