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From: Brian Marshall <snail@×××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] paludis vs emerge
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:46:02
Message-Id: 20080125164517.30437748@xenon
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] paludis vs emerge by David Relson
1 On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:30:55 -0500
2 David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > I've been experimenting with paludis for the last month or two to
5 > compare it with emerge. For my periodic "update world" runs the two
6 > programs seem functionally comparable. Paludis is, however, more
7 > verbose and I'm not liking that aspect.
8 >
9 > My typical emerge command is "emerge -auDtqv world" and produces:
10 >
11 > [ebuild UD] kde-base/kde-3.5.7 [3.5.8] USE="..."
12 > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/paludis-0.26.0_alpha9 [0.26.0_alpha7]
13 > USE="..." [noomerge ] kde-base/kde-3.5.7 [3.5.8] USE="..."
14 > [nomerge ] sys-apps/paludis-0.26.0_alpha9 [0.26.0_alpha7] ...
15 > [ebuild U ] dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 [1.34.1-r1] ...
16 > [ebuild UD] app-misc/mime-types-5 [7] ..
17 >
18 > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no
19 >
20 > Quitting.
21 >
22 > I like the one brevity as I can see a lot of information and then
23 > decide whether to go ahead or not.
24 >
25 > "paludis --show-use-descriptions none -p -i world" lets me see
26 > what's going to happen. On the down side, I need to run it a
27 > second time (without the "-p") to install the packages. Also,
28 > paludis first prints a bunch of informational messages and then
29 > prints 4 info lines per package.
30 >
31 > Have I overlooked an option comparable to "--ask" ?
32 >
33 No, Paludis is non-interactive.
34
35 > Have I overlooked an option to suppress the initial messages.
36 >
37 Use --compact to compress the package output and --log-level to control
38 the amount of informational messages.
39
40 > Thanks.
41 >
42 > David
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46 Brian

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Re: [gentoo-user] paludis vs emerge Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] paludis vs emerge Ralf Stephan <ralf@×××××××××××××.de>