[gentoo-user] paludis vs emerge

[David Relson]

I've been experimenting with paludis for the last month or two to
compare it with emerge.  For my periodic "update world" runs the two
programs seem functionally comparable.  Paludis is, however, more
verbose and I'm not liking that aspect.

My typical emerge command is "emerge -auDtqv world" and produces:

  [ebuild   UD] kde-base/kde-3.5.7 [3.5.8] USE="..." 
  [ebuild   U ] sys-apps/paludis-0.26.0_alpha9 [0.26.0_alpha7] USE="..."
  [noomerge   ] kde-base/kde-3.5.7 [3.5.8] USE="..." 
  [nomerge    ] sys-apps/paludis-0.26.0_alpha9 [0.26.0_alpha7] ...
  [ebuild   U ]  dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 [1.34.1-r1] ...
  [ebuild   UD] app-misc/mime-types-5 [7] ..

  Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no

  Quitting.

I like the one brevity as I can see a lot of information and then
decide whether to go ahead or not.

"paludis --show-use-descriptions none -p -i world" lets me see
what's going to happen.  On the down side, I need to run it a
second time (without the "-p") to install the packages.  Also,
paludis first prints a bunch of informational messages and then prints 4
info lines per package.

Have I overlooked an option comparable to "--ask" ?

Have I overlooked an option to suppress the initial messages.

Thanks.

David
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