Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: About "system" and "world"

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour]

On 2007/10/23, Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote:

> --upgrade != the current --update (at least that's what I assumed)

Oops, right, i have overlooked Zac's post, seen '--usomething', and
immediatly thought of '-u' with some optionnal additional parameter.

> What I'd like ideally (as a user) is to replace --update,
> --deep, --noreplace and --emptytree with the following options:
>
> --resolver={minimal,noslotchange,leastchange,default}
> ...

I would call "noslotchange" (resp. "leastchange") "inslot" (resp.
"closest"), for conciseness, but otherwise, yes, sounds like a
complete and useful set of choices.

> --rebuild={never,always,changeduse,newuse,changeddeps,selected}
> ...

Good idea, i had never realized i would love that too before seeing
it written down :)

> --deplevel=<n>
> ...

I'm not sure i see usefulness of levels which are strictly beetween zero
and infinity (but to emulate the old -u), but why not...

> But that's just me dreaming of a better world, where we don't have
> to deal with legacies ;)

Bah, you're introducing a new options set, and have (i think) ways to
emulate all of the old ones with them, so what is stopping you?  You
would just have to forbid mixes of old style and new style on the same
command line. (Only problem i can see in having the two sets coexisting
for some time is that you may run out of free characters for short
options.)

Well, with a way to define default values of your three ne options in  
a config file ($EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS ?), i think i could live happy in
your better world.

-- 
TGL.
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