On 14 August 2015 at 05:37, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Uh, the point of the 'pretend' bit in the name is that it *is* run when > you do emerge -p.
It is strange really. It does them *after* prompting "yes" with --ask Whats the point of that? Granted they are very slow for me now with the KDE5 stuff having virtually every package doing pkg_pretend, so I see why avoiding them before the --ask might be beneficial. But I'm not sure how beneficial it is to give me a merge plan, ask me if I want to do it or not .... and then find out some use flags are unworkable *after* pressing yes. ( I recently filed bugs on quite a few python packages because they were being resolved in pkg_pretend when they could have been resolved in REQUIRED_USE ) Maybe if we could fix *this* wart about pkg_pretend, it would be more viable as a competitor to REQUIRED_USE ? -- Kent KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL
