Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [SoC] Idea for emerge

[Marius Mauch]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:10:13 +0100
Simon Lipp <simon.lipp@×××××××××.fr> wrote:
> [...]
> $ sudo emerge -vp --interactive-useflags liferea
> [...]
>
> Comments, questions and other are welcome ;)

Long standing policy is that emerge is non-interactive (--ask is just a
convenience feature to avoid duplicate dep resolution), and for things
like this a new tool should be created that can focus on user
interaction.
Besides that, I don't really want to think about the implications of
such a feature on backtracking, esp. regarding issues like bug 1343,
and I'd assume users might get rather confused to answer questions that
are then thrown away later. Another (relatively minor) problem is that
the flags set in such a session would have to be made persistent
somehow, and I wouldn't want emerge to mess with /etc/portage/package.*
files (that's a more generic problem though).
As for listing USE flag descriptions, there are already patches
floating around for that (at least TGL wrote one a while ago), and even
if not it would be hardly worth a complete SoC project by itself.

So, nice try, but no go (IMHO)

Marius

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