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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I don't like package managers which require interactivity. |
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> emerge -uvDp world | less is easier to parse then emerge -upDa world. |
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> Why? Because I don't have to find a way of transferring <return> if |
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> less handles all of the keyboard input. |
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> So I prefer two stages: |
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> 1) pretend merge - single verbosity - and look at output |
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> 2) actual merge - normal / quiet - and pipe to tee |
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So what you're saying... is that emerge should have a switch to turn |
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on, when using -p, -a, and/or -t, a pager? Particularly one that, |
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until you're content with -a in particular, doesn't accidentally have |
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a means of handing output back off to the emerge for the yes/no? This |
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would spare the double run of the dependency checker while giving |
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users who want it a pager to use and giving the rest the same |
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functionality a simple -a gives now... something like etc-update's use |
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of a pager comes to mind. Let's see... -P is taken for --prune ... |
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--less/-L or... --more/-m ... --more/-M ? Of course, --pager/-M would |
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work too, but it's less intuitive (we already have --unmerge/-C ... so |
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why not, I suppose). Not *quite* sure I'm up to the task at the |
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moment, though. |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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