-- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thusly:
> on my old gentoo install i type etc-update and there is a kind of
> ncurses gui app appears. according to qpkg -f etc-update is from
> portage 2.0.46-r12
>
> In my new gentoo install, it comes up in an older style wihich scrolls
> off the screen. via the same route i believe etc-update comes from
> portage 2.0.47-r2
>
> This is all a bit weird, can anyone tell me why I get these two
> different user interfaces?
>From /etc/etc-update.conf:
# mode - 0 for text, 1 for menu (support incomplete)
# note that you need dev-util/dialog installed
mode="0"
As I recall, the menu mode doesn't really work, so I'm a little
surpised you have it enabled. I submitted a patch
(<http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4709>, comment #19) which
includes a fully implemented dialog interface, but I haven't gotten any
feedback whatsoever on the status of it or whether it might get
included some day from a single gentoo developer.
There's also another patch that's been submitted
<http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14079> which seems to provide
much of the same functionality (including the auto-merge stuff,
although seemingly not as integrated into Portage) which might actually
get included sometime soon.
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