On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Joshua Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 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 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?
