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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: tigger@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev List <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for change of emerge -up output
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:02:37
Message-Id: 1094212950.10178.3.camel@rattus.Localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Idea for change of emerge -up output by tigger@gentoo.org
1 your going to break an awful lot of user scripts that expect the current
2 behaviour. It might be better to add that functionality as -P
3 (capitalise) or similar for compatibility.
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5 BillK
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8 On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 20:51, tigger@g.o wrote:
9 > Hi all,
10 >
11 > The current output of emerge -p is difficult to machine parse because
12 > its difficult to split the package name and package version. However,
13 > its easy for emerge to output the two differently.
14 >
15 > I'd like to suggest that its changed from:
16 >
17 > [ebuild U ] app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r5 [7.07.1-r3]
18 >
19 > To:
20 >
21 > [ebuild U ] app-text/ghostscript [7.07.1-r5] [7.07.1-r3]
22 >
23 > Does anyone have any (reasonable) objections to this?
24 >
25 > Cheers,
26 >
27 > Rob
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for change of emerge -up output Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>