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On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:31, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> Right now 'emerge action' and 'emerge --action' are both supported. But |
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> as we learned with the rsync case 'emerge action' has potential |
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> namespace conflicts with 'emerge package' I'd propose to deprecate |
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> 'emerge action' before we hit another real conflict. |
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> (The alternative would be to deprecate 'emerge package' in favor of a |
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> to-be-written 'emerge install <package>', but that's even more |
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> problematic) |
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> Technically it's a no-brainer, only potential problem would be user |
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> confusion. |
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> Any objections against this for pre5? |
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If by "deprecate" you mean to detect when '--' hasn't been prepended and |
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either go ahead with the action or notify that the package doesn't exist |
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then I have no objections. Might be better to go with the latter so that |
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users adjust quickly. |
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Actions specified without a '--' prefix is no longer supported. |
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Please use --update instead. |
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emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "update". |
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Doing it that way will show exactly why it's being dropped without the |
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need for a written explanation (and hopefully no bug about how it's a |
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terrible usability regression). |
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Jason Stubbs |
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