Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage-2.1_pre2 and new use flag showing with emerge -p

[Jason Stubbs]

On Monday 26 December 2005 22:54, Petteri Räty wrote:
> Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > On Monday 26 December 2005 07:18, Petteri Räty wrote:
> >>I propose we improve the emerge -pv output to be something like the
> >>following:
> >>
> >>[ebuild     U ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.10-r1 [1.0.10] NEW="-debug"
> >>OLD="-doc oss" 0 kB
> >>
> >>This would keep the functionality with --verbose.
> >
> > The NEW and OLD variables have no meaning. USE have been put there
> > because any USE_EXPAND flags found in IUSE are represented separately.
> > For example:
> >
> > [ebuild   R   ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6  USE="-bitmap-fonts cjk -debug
> > -dlloader -dmx -doc font-server -insecure-drivers -ipv6 -minimal -nls
> > -nocxx opengl -pam -sdk -static truetype-fonts -type1-fonts -xprint xv"
> > INPUT_DEVICES="-synaptics -wacom" 44,520 kB
> >
> > I doubt that the NEW and OLD would really be visible in the --verbose
> > output in the general case anyway. How about just making added flags
> > green to match the output of changed flags?
>
> Green would probably work. Maybe best to change it for -p too then to
> have -v do what is supposed to do, that is to give extra information.
> Maybe we could also change the - in front of the turned of use flags to
> some other color than the flag itself to make it stand out. It took me a
> while to notice it was there.

That shouldn't be necessary. I've already changed the ordering so that it goes 
"a c e -b -d -f" rather than "a -b c -d e -f". Green negatives among blue 
will stand out much more green negatives interspered with blue and red.

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Jason Stubbs

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