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On Thursday 03 May 2007 02:26:36 b.n. wrote: |
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> However, on a sidenote, I must say I find the current emerge syntax |
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> quite confusing. Using the % for both newly added and removed and () for |
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> either forced, masked and removed is not the best of ideas, imho. |
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> If % means "newly", there should at least be two circumfix symbols for |
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> added and removed, respectively. |
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> Something like: |
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> (%flag) : newly added |
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> [%flag] : newly removed |
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> (flag) : forced |
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> [flag] : removed |
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> {flag} : masked |
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The discussion on this took place on bug #144661 [1]. Bugs #116955 and #144333 |
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are related. |
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> But I'm still confused: why should you see an added or removed warning |
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> *if it's not new*? |
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Because it's quite confusing to type `emerge --newuse --verbose world` and see |
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packages getting remerged that according to the output from emerge didn't |
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change their use flags. --newuse is sensitive to IUSE changes and hence the |
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output needs to reflect all changes to IUSE. |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144661 |
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Bo Andresen |
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