On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 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. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
