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From: Matti Bickel <mabi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info'
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:37:51
Message-Id: 20090404163620.GA6539@pluto
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] `paludis --info' is not like `emerge --info' by Thilo Bangert
1 Thilo Bangert <bangert@g.o> wrote:
2 > > 'guess'. Like how you have to guess what use flags are really being
3 > > used for the package in question, because it doesn't tell you?
4 >
5 > i'd like to ask the developers of package managers to standardize this.
6 > having <packagmanager> --info be the same no matter who you like best is
7 > incredibly usefull.
8
9 ++
10 Please, do it.
11 Even an educated guess is better than nothing, raising the probability
12 bug-wranglers can handle the bug even before it hits other devs' inboxes.
13 --
14 Regards, Matti Bickel
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