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Jan Kundrát posted <43BE968C.4090609@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:10:52 +0100: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> * Removed --ask message, apparently it's superfluous. |
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> Why? I haven't found any conclusion about that in the last thread. It |
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> doesn't make sense to show the message in both `emerge -p foo` and |
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> `emerge foo`, but not in `emerge -a foo`, IMHO. |
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My thinking too, until I saw the portage dev (JStubbs?) mention it wasn't |
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needed. |
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I believe the thinking is that emerge --ask is basically emerge --pretend |
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with an opportunity to continue stuck on the end, thus eliminating running |
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the same command only without the --pretend again, therefore eliminating |
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running portage's dep calculation step twice, once for the pretend, then |
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again for the run. |
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Looked at this way, -a automatically gets the same treatment as -p. |
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Actually, -a might spit out the unread news warning twice, once as part of |
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the pretend output, then again as part of the regular emerge once the user |
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has said to continue. In any case, it should spit it out in at least the |
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first instance, just as --pretend would. |
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So, yes, it was mentioned in (one of) the previous threads. It was only a |
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small mention, however, so you might have missed it. I might have myself, |
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had I not commented on -a functionality myself earlier, and was therefore |
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watching for discussion of that aspect in particular. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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