On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 14:24 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 August 2006 22:36, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > > As an end user and also an administrator, I am very pleased to see
> > > this laid out so clearly. I mean, I knew it, but it seems like it
> > > needs to be yelled once in a while
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 22:36, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > As an end user and also an administrator, I am very pleased to see
> > this laid out so clearly. I mean, I knew it, but it seems like it
> > needs to be yelled once in a while...
>
> hmm, now that I know of these flags, I can take a look at
Joshua Nichols wrote:
While it is columnar, the D is in a dark blue font. If you happen to be
using a dark background, there is extremely little contrast. Perhaps it
could be a different color that would stick out in both light and dark
backgrounds?
There is color-mapping support in portage 2.1
Patrick McLean wrote:
> Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> [ebuild R ] sys-fs/cryptsetup-luks-1.0.3-r2
> [ebuild U ] x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-7.9 [7.8-r1]
> [ebuild U ] sci-chemistry/gromacs-3.3.1 [3.3]
> [ebuild UD] app-foo/bar-1.0.2 [1.1.0]
> [ebuild U ] app-text/evince-0.5.5 [0.5.4]
>
> W
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 10:41, Patrick McLean wrote:
> We generally assume that our users have some intelligence, we don't put
> big fat warnings on everything that might break. We give the users all
> the information and let them decide if its going to break. Gentoo never
> was and never will be
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> So I'll probably have no other chance than writing a frontend
> to emerge, parsing its output - hoping the output syntax remains
> the same for an sufficiant time :(
>
[ebuild R ] sys-fs/cryptsetup-luks-1.0.3-r2
[ebuild U ] x11-terms/rxvt-unicode-7.9 [7.8-r1]
[ebu
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Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
>
>
>
>> [ebuild UD] sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r7 [5.94-r1] USE="-acl -build
>> -nls -static" 0 kB
>>
>> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
>>
>> See the little "D"?
>>
>> It's not big,
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
* Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
[ebuild UD] sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r7 [5.94-r1] USE="-acl -build
-nls -static" 0 kB
Total size of downloads: 0 kB
See the little "D"?
It's not big, it's not fat, but it's warning you. :)
Not actually an eye-ca
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> > See the little "D"?
> >
> > It's not big, it's not fat, but it's warning you. :)
>
> Not actually an eye-catching.
>
> To be fair, do *you* actually look through *all* the emerge
> output if there's any "D" flag, without the risk
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 23:01:45 +0200
Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Obviously, not everyone wants to be vigilant - but
> > if you aren't - then you don't get to whine about it when it breaks.
> > well actually I guess you do...
>
> So, you don't have any intention to help people w
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Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> To be fair, do *you* actually look through *all* the emerge
> output if there's any "D" flag, without the risk of overlooking
> it someday ?
Yes.
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* Steev Klimaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Obviously, not everyone wants to be vigilant - but
> if you aren't - then you don't get to whine about it when it breaks.
> well actually I guess you do...
So, you don't have any intention to help people who don't have
such an eagle-eye o
On 8/7/06, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To be fair, do *you* actually look through *all* the emerge
output if there's any "D" flag, without the risk of overlooking
it someday ?
Um, sorry, but users *should* be looking at the output of --pretend to
get an idea of what portage wants
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> Not actually an eye-catching.
Ummm, D, as opposed to U... Yeah, that catches my eye. I am weird like
that though.
>
> To be fair, do *you* actually look through *all* the emerge
> output if there's any "D" flag, without the risk of overlooking
> it someday ?
Yes, hone
* Steve Dibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> [ebuild UD] sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r7 [5.94-r1] USE="-acl -build
> -nls -static" 0 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
>
> See the little "D"?
>
> It's not big, it's not fat, but it's warning you. :)
Not actually an eye-catching.
To be fai
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
Why can't emerge just print out an fat warning if its going to
downgrade ? Would save people from much, much trouble.
# emerge -pv =coreutils-5.2.1-r7
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild UD] sys-apps/core
* Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> > # WARNING: installed package foo-1.1 has been masked and would # be
> > downgraded:
> > #
> > [...]
>
> That's precisely what emerge --pretend --verbose covers. Or, if you want
> the display with a question to continue or not, use --ask instead of
> -
Duncan wrote:
> That's precisely what emerge --pretend --verbose covers. Or, if you want
> the display with a question to continue or not, use --ask instead of
> --verbose.
>
I'm pretty sure you mean to use --ask instead of --pretend, not --verbose.
--
Joshua Nichols
Gentoo/Java - Project Lea
Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 07 Aug 2006
15:01:57 +0200:
> My problem still seems unsolved (or did I miss something) ?
You missed something.
> Lets say, if I've, installed foo-1.1, and it gets masked due some bug(s),
> but 1.0 isn't, I wa
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