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From: Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:55:05
Message-Id: c30988c30810301555r5c3454edh927cdd3d8b458192@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2 by Andrey Vul
1 On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Andrey Vul <andrey.vul@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > But I usually use emerge -p > file in order to see the difference in
3 > dependencies from testing USE flags.
4 > I would always choose -pN over -aN.
5 >
6 > Where's the portage to-do list?
7 > If you can find it, add these two items:
8 > fix the uname
9 > add pager support for -p, -a, -t
10
11 Well, I didn't find it with the miserably little effort I put into
12 looking... so instead, I wrote up a quick hack to emerge to implement
13 use of a pager any time the internal display() function is called. I
14 made the mistake of writing it against the 'stable' version of
15 portage, though... so I'll be (hopefully) porting it over to Portage
16 2.2_rc12 (the newest my current state of laziness allows on my amd64
17 machine). Any chance anyone here's a bit more skilled with python than
18 I am and would want to remind me of all the error checking I left out?
19 After I get a patch handy, at least...
20
21 As for the 'fix the uname' bit... I haven't had a chance to dig
22 through the changelogs to see the who/when/why of the change that made
23 it what it is now, and whether (as was clarified as likely in the
24 related thread here) the current output is what's "intended."
25
26 --
27 Poison [BLX]
28 Joshua M. Murphy