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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:30:55 -0500 |
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David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've been experimenting with paludis for the last month or two to |
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> compare it with emerge. For my periodic "update world" runs the two |
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> programs seem functionally comparable. Paludis is, however, more |
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> verbose and I'm not liking that aspect. |
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> My typical emerge command is "emerge -auDtqv world" and produces: |
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> [ebuild UD] kde-base/kde-3.5.7 [3.5.8] USE="..." |
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> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/paludis-0.26.0_alpha9 [0.26.0_alpha7] |
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> USE="..." [noomerge ] kde-base/kde-3.5.7 [3.5.8] USE="..." |
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> [nomerge ] sys-apps/paludis-0.26.0_alpha9 [0.26.0_alpha7] ... |
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> [ebuild U ] dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 [1.34.1-r1] ... |
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> [ebuild UD] app-misc/mime-types-5 [7] .. |
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> Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no |
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> Quitting. |
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> I like the one brevity as I can see a lot of information and then |
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> decide whether to go ahead or not. |
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> "paludis --show-use-descriptions none -p -i world" lets me see |
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> what's going to happen. On the down side, I need to run it a |
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> second time (without the "-p") to install the packages. Also, |
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> paludis first prints a bunch of informational messages and then |
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> prints 4 info lines per package. |
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> Have I overlooked an option comparable to "--ask" ? |
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No, Paludis is non-interactive. |
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> Have I overlooked an option to suppress the initial messages. |
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Use --compact to compress the package output and --log-level to control |
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the amount of informational messages. |
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> Thanks. |
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> David |
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Brian |