How about making it so you need two -v switchs (eg: -vv) to get the long listing? I use `emerge world -puv` all the time and don 't want to have to scroll through so much stuff.
On 8/24/05, Dustin Spicuzza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > I've been using Gentoo for a couple of years now... and portage was the > #1 reason I kept using Gentoo over other Linux distros... and why I'm > still using it. > > Something that's always bugged me a lot is USE flags. Which, while I > think that they are one of the best things about portage, I think that > they are also one of the more annoying features as well... it can be > relatively annoying to configure it all up. Especially researching what > they are... yes, it just takes a little bit of effort to find them, but > why not make it slightly easier? > > Anyways, I made a patch (against Portage 2.0.51.22-r2, attached as > verbose_use_patch.tar) that adds the description of each USE flag to the > 'emerge -pv <package>' command. The output for openoffice, for example, > looks something like this... > > [ebuild N ] app-office/openoffice-1.1.4-r1 -curl -hardened -java > +kde -nptl +zlib 215,331 kB > * curl - Adds support for client-side URL transfer library > * hardened - activate default security enhancements for toolchain > (gcc, glibc, binutils) > * java - Adds support for Java > * kde - Adds support for kde-base/kde (K Desktop Enviroment) > * nptl - Enable support for Native POSIX Threads Library, the new > threading module (requires linux-2.6 or better usually) > * zlib - Adds support for zlib (de)compression > > And, it does this for each package (only for verbose obviously) Its a > very small, non-invasive patch, and quite small (a routine in > portage_util.py, and 5 lines of code in emerge). > > I attached the patch here because I wasn't quite sure of the proper > procedure for patch submission... anyways, thanks for all your work! > Hopefully in the future I can contribute to this project. > > Dustin Spicuzza > > > -- Sandy McArthur "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." -- Thomas Jefferson -- [email protected] mailing list
