On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 23:14:20 -0800 Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | emerge -pv <package> | | would actually continue listing (modified normal)after finding a | dependency is masked rather than stop on, and report only, the first | one. The masked packages would need to be marked as such [hard | masked, keyword masked], possibly shown grouped in blocks [KEYWORD, | HARD MASKED, STABLE].
Problem is, once you hit one bad dependency, you can't carry on and guarantee what the rest of the dep tree is going to be. Example: emerge -pv foo foo DEPENDs upon bar and baz bar DEPENDS upon fnord, and is MASKED baz DEPENDs upon || ( gerbil fnord ) -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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