[gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

2016-04-17 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:02:54 +0200 Ralf wrote: > ... What about aliasing emerge to sudo emerge? :-) Because sometimes I want to use sudo with emerge and sometimes not. I do have sudo-included aliases for a couple of the more common cases, alias upworld='sudo emerge -auvD --changed-use @world'

[gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

2016-04-17 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:54:16 +0300 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 8:57 PM, »Q« wrote: > > I too often forget to use sudo along with emerge --ask, which gets > > me a prompt to add --pretend to the options, e.g. > > > > $ emerge -a firefox > > This action requires superuser ac

[gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

2016-04-17 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:40:04 -0400 Philip Webb wrote: > 160417 »Q« wrote: > > I too often forget to use 'sudo' along with 'emerge --ask', > > which gets me a prompt to add '--pretend' to the options. > > I never want to add '--pretend' to the options : > > if I've used '--ask', I also meant to us

[gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

2016-04-17 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:51:22 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 14:22:44 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > > > ... What about aliasing emerge to sudo emerge? :-) > > > > Because sometimes I want to use sudo with emerge and sometimes > > not. I do have sudo-included aliases for a couple o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

2016-04-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 14:22:44 -0500, »Q« wrote: > > ... What about aliasing emerge to sudo emerge? :-) > > Because sometimes I want to use sudo with emerge and sometimes not. I > do have sudo-included aliases for a couple of the more common cases, Use \emerge when you don't want the alias? -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: suppressing the 'would you like to add --pretend' prompt when using emerge --ask

2016-04-17 Thread Philip Webb
160417 »Q« wrote: > It sounds like you'd be happier just running everything as root. Oh no ! -- I'ld never run ordinary user apps as root. > It wouldn't be any more dangerous > than giving me access to a root terminal on your machine. ;) My user terminal (Desktop 2) always has a white backgroun