Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:17:06 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> What Bruce was saying is this. When you use --ask, you can look at the >> output of what packages are going to be emerged, what USE flags are >> enabled/disabled/changed and other information that could make a person >> change a setting all before anything is done. If emerge is doing to >> much, to little or some other unwanted thing, you can change it. > > I understand that, but it is not relevant to my point. Using -N includes > packages that do not need emerging. Either you let them emerge or you > filter them out manually, either way is inefficient. Particularly the > manual filtering as they will show up again on the next run. > > Bruce also posted a chained alias he uses, so having to interrupt the > process top manually select packages means running the rest of the > commands manually too. Like Alan says, trust portage to know your system, > let it make the first decision before you review it with --ask. > > The option is there, I find it useful. I really don't care who else uses > itWhat Bruce was saying is this. When you use --ask, you can look at the > output of what packages are going to be emerged, what USE flags are > enabled/disabled/changed and other information that could make a person > change a setting all before anything is done. If emerge is doing to > much, to little or some other unwanted thing, you can change it. > , but I thought I'd mention it in came anyone still using its shotgun > predecessor found the information useful. I am not trying to persuade > anyone else to use it and you won't persuade me to stop using it, neither > is the point of the post. > > It's just occurred to me as I was about to hit Send. If you respond to > emerge --ask with n, it still returns success, so using that in the > middle of a chin of commands is not much help unless you use Ctrl-C > instead of n. > >
Why do you say that -N will compile packages that don't need it? If a USE flags is added, changed or whatever, I want that change to be seen and the package to be recompiled. It could very well affect how the package works or some feature. I can see the point on the long command tho. About the longest I get is eix-sync && emerge -uvaDN world. That's about it. I like to type in anything else that needs to be dealt with. As you know, I run into enough problems with upgrades already. LOL Oh, eudev switch went pretty well. I even found a roach in dracut. It seems dracut had a hard dependency on udev itself and not the virtual udev. Now dracut is gone. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
