Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] depgraph.display_problems directs unsatisfied dependencies messages to stdout

[Zac Medico]

Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> Hello all
> <SHELL>
> amit0 ~ # emerge -p my_non_existing_pkg 2> /tmp/err 1> /tmp/out
> amit0 ~ # echo $?
> 1
> amit0 ~ # cat /tmp/err
> amit0 ~ # cat /tmp/out
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ... done!
>
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "my_non_existing_pkg".
>
> </SHELL>
> Documentation states:
> "All output goes to stderr, except for unsatisfied dependencies which go
> to stdout for parsing by programs such as autounmask"
>
> What's autounmask?

It's for unmasking packages and their dependencies automatically:

  http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-portage/autounmask

I never use it, but I think it's pretty common for users who want to
run mostly stable packages and only a few unstable packages.

>
> 10x,
>
> Amit
>


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Thanks,
Zac