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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/3] emerge: Deprecate --autounmask
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 10:32:36
Message-Id: 1390127549.24148.144.camel@belkin5
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/3] emerge: Deprecate --autounmask by Alexander Berntsen
1 El dom, 19-01-2014 a las 11:23 +0100, Alexander Berntsen escribió:
2 > On 19/01/14 09:01, Pacho Ramos wrote:
3 > > If I understand the change correctly (I don't know much about
4 > > python but, but per the diff, looks like you are dropping the
5 > > option and making the code behave like it's always 'True'), seems
6 > > that you are forcing autounmask to be on always.
7 > You do not understand it correctly. It makes --ask imply
8 > --autounmask-write.
9
10 Ah, nice :)
11
12 >
13 > > Even if I use this in all my systems (passing it in by default
14 > > emerge opts), I think we still need a way to disable it sometimes.
15 > There is. Regardless of whether you mean (current) --autounmask or
16 > (current) --autounmask-write behaviour.
17 >
18 > emerge --ask foo # This won't -write
19 > emerge --autounmask --pretend foo # Same as the above
20 > emerge --ask --pretend foo # This won't even offer the suggestions
21 >
22 > Please see [0] for more information.
23 >
24 > [0] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481578#c10>
25
26 Then, I guess "-ap" would be the equivalent of --autounmask=n and should
27 behave in the same way, right? In that case, no problem (even if I think
28 we should document this since using --ask --pretend at the same time
29 doesn't look so intuitive to me :( )

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/3] emerge: Deprecate --autounmask Alexander Berntsen <alexander@××××××.net>