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From: Thierry Carrez <koon@g.o>
To: tigger@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for change of emerge -up output
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:01:42
Message-Id: 41385D22.60008@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Idea for change of emerge -up output by tigger@gentoo.org
1 tigger@g.o wrote:
2
3 > The current output of emerge -p is difficult to machine parse because
4 > its difficult to split the package name and package version. However,
5 > its easy for emerge to output the two differently.
6 >
7 > I'd like to suggest that its changed from:
8 >
9 > [ebuild U ] app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r5 [7.07.1-r3]
10 >
11 > To:
12 >
13 > [ebuild U ] app-text/ghostscript [7.07.1-r5] [7.07.1-r3]
14 >
15 > Does anyone have any (reasonable) objections to this?
16
17 I think
18
19 [ebuild U ] app-text/ghostscript 7.07.1-r3 -> 7.07.1-r5
20
21 would be easier to understand by a human and still machine-parseable.
22
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24 Koon
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