Zac Medico wrote: > Daniel Barkalow wrote: >> I think emerge should be able to do better with guessing what I mean by >> "sudo". How about, if: > >> 1) "ask" or "pretend" is on, and >> 2) exactly one package with a given short name is in world or is installed > >> it will print a message explaining the ambiguity, but will proceed with >> the package from world. (1 means that the user has a chance to confirm the >> choice before anything actually happens; 2 means portage has some guess as >> to which is desired.) > > I like the general idea. I'm not sure if the "ask" or "pretend" > requirement is really necessary. Why not just make the assumption > that the user expects smart category expansion in any case? > > Zac >
My only concern is about consistency. IE the portage backend (if I recall correctly) should return all matching nodes; emerge would then take that list and find the first one that matches in the vdb. However it becomes a bit difficult sometimes because emerge may do this vdb preference but say, portageq, may not. -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
