On 6/20/20 6:21 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:06 PM Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote:
You just pointed out the ambiguity.
Emerging a package solely by its name worked 99.9% of the time before
this change.
Now new users get the fun of "Gee, which one is the one I actually
want?" MythTV is a fairly clear one to figure out, but other packages
aren't.
Honestly, your word of "ambiguity" was somewhat ambiguous. I had no
idea what you were talking about in your original post. :)
I think this is actually a fair criticism. Not so much that it isn't
clear which one to install, but rather that this system does cause you
to have to use full cat/pkg atoms when previous pkg alone would have
worked. There have always been packages where this is necessary, but
this has made this more common.
Yes, I could've worded that better.
I would imagine that if someone asks to install something like mythtv or
asterisk there's a 0% chance that they want to install a package that
creates a user or group, they want the actual package itself.
I think that makes more sense.
I've been using gentoo since 2003/04? and I've only had to use the
cat/package expression maybe twice... and I believe those packages were
python or perl related.
It's more of a usability issue than anything.
The way that it now deals with user and group creation is elegant,
especially if you have more than one package that needs a specific user
and/or group combination created. When I first saw portage spit out the
ambiguity for the request `emerge mythtv` the first thing I thought was
"Why would I need to merge a package to create a user? That's the
package manager's problem..." :o)
Maybe when I have a moment I'll file a bug.
Dan
