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From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:38:22
Message-Id: 20050430123826.GA101054@lion.gg3.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft by Elfyn McBratney
1 maillog: 30/04/2005-13:27:44(+0100): Elfyn McBratney types
2 > On Saturday 30 Apr 2005 13:07, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote:
3 > > On Saturday 30 April 2005 13:12, Marius Mauch wrote:
4 > > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:31:17 +0200
5 > > >
6 > > > Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@g.o> wrote:
7 > > > > On Friday 29 April 2005 16:38, Jason Stubbs wrote:
8 > > > > > > Heh, I get that after every invocation of emerge. :)
9 > > > > >
10 > > > > > Yep. That's the scanning of all installed packages for any provided
11 > > > > > virtuals.
12 > > > >
13 > > > > Why not let Portage print that before scanning?
14 > > >
15 > > > Print what?
16 > > > The scanning is done on the general config parsing, and you can't really
17 > > > do anything before that.
18 > >
19 > > Scanning configuration/installed packages or something. It just seems a bit
20 > > more userfriendly to print something if it takes a long while to do
21 > > anything.
22 > >
23 > > Just my to 0.02€
24 >
25 > Sounds good to me, if possible. Could we maybe be more noisy here when people
26 > run with --verbose ? You know, so your not left staring at nothingness while
27 > portage does it's imports, scans, whatever ..
28
29 Also consider that Control-C doesn't really do anything at that stage.
30
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