Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Deprecating 'emerge action' syntax
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:07:02
Message-Id: 20060216190508.0c10f708@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Deprecating 'emerge action' syntax by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:04:20 +0000
2 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:31:25 +0100 Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
5 > wrote:
6 > | Right now 'emerge action' and 'emerge --action' are both supported.
7 > | But as we learned with the rsync case 'emerge action' has potential
8 > | namespace conflicts with 'emerge package' I'd propose to deprecate
9 > | 'emerge action' before we hit another real conflict.
10 > | (The alternative would be to deprecate 'emerge package' in favor of
11 > a | to-be-written 'emerge install <package>', but that's even more
12 > | problematic)
13 > | Technically it's a no-brainer, only potential problem would be user
14 > | confusion.
15 > | Any objections against this for pre5?
16 >
17 > Mmm, is this taking advantage of Daniel no longer being able to revert
18 > it? :)
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20 Heh, almost forgot why the code has been commented for ages ;)
21
22 Marius
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