Dan Corson wrote:
> Even when I am running 'emerge' non-interactively, I like to have the 
> dependency record afforded by --tree.  Currently when updating my system 
> non-interactively to get this I have to do:
>   (emerge -uDtv world; emerge -uDv world) &> logfile
> because --tree implies --pretend.  Could this implication be dropped?  
> Thanks, --Dan
> P.S. If this is a reasonable request, it might be reasonable for the 
> other options that imply --pretend that I don't use, namely --changelog 
> and --columns.
> P.P.S. Even
>   echo y | emerge -auDtv world
> doesn't work because --ask wants a terminal.

Your request doesn't even make sense. AFAIK, the *only* thing --tree affects is 
the output of the package list as part of --pretend (and --ask). If --tree 
didn't imply --pretend, 'emerge -uDtv world' would give you the exact same 
output as 'emerge -uDv world'.

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