Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/3] emerge: Deprecate --autounmask

[Brian Dolbec]

On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 11:47:34 +0100
Alexander Berntsen <alexander@××××××.net> wrote:

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> On 19/01/14 11:32, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > Then, I guess "-ap" would be the equivalent of --autounmask=n and
> > should behave in the same way, right? In that case, no problem
> > (even if I think we should document this since using --ask
> > --pretend at the same time doesn't look so intuitive to me :( )
> Since --ask implies --autounmask, the following are all the same for
> autounmask-purposes:
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> emerge --pretend --ask foo
> emerge --pretend --autounmask foo
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> As for "emerge --autounmask=n foo", This will actually spit out the
> suggestions, just not ask to write them.
>
> While playing with this, I discovered a possible misbehaviour though.
> With "emerge --ask --autounmask=n", --ask takes precedence to
> - --autounmask=n. Maybe it shouldn't. But this can always be changed.
> - --
> Alexander

As I recall in portage's code, -p -s ignored and removed from the
options when --ask is invoked since it implies --pretend behavior, but
allows emerge to continue with an yes answer rather than have to start
the dep calc's over again.

So, I agree that having to have both --ask and --pretend to get the
same functionality is just bad and not intuitive.

Brian Dolbec, <dolsen>