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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] 'emerge' request: make --tree not imply --pretend
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:18:44
Message-Id: 449D9DA7.9080405@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] 'emerge' request: make --tree not imply --pretend by Dan Corson
1 Dan Corson wrote:
2 > Even when I am running 'emerge' non-interactively, I like to have the
3 > dependency record afforded by --tree. Currently when updating my system
4 > non-interactively to get this I have to do:
5 > (emerge -uDtv world; emerge -uDv world) &> logfile
6 > because --tree implies --pretend. Could this implication be dropped?
7 > Thanks, --Dan
8 > P.S. If this is a reasonable request, it might be reasonable for the
9 > other options that imply --pretend that I don't use, namely --changelog
10 > and --columns.
11 > P.P.S. Even
12 > echo y | emerge -auDtv world
13 > doesn't work because --ask wants a terminal.
14
15 Your request doesn't even make sense. AFAIK, the *only* thing --tree affects is
16 the output of the package list as part of --pretend (and --ask). If --tree
17 didn't imply --pretend, 'emerge -uDtv world' would give you the exact same
18 output as 'emerge -uDv world'.
19
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] 'emerge' request: make --tree not imply --pretend Dan Corson <dancor@×××××.com>