On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:34 -0400, Andrey Vul wrote: > >> >> emerge -av1 udev >> I prefer emerge -1pv udev >> <look at output> >> emerge -1 udev > > Which means you have to wait for the dependency resolver to run twice. > Which is why it's better to use > > emerge -1av udev > look at output > press enter 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
> -- > Neil Bothwick > > If it ain't broke, wait a day or two!! > -- 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?
