Philip, On Wednesday, 2021-08-04 07:57:06 -0400, you wrote:
> ... > Why not write the output to a file ? -- eg > 'emerge --ask --depclean > <temporaryfilename>'. > Then you can look at the output at leisure, even on another machine. Depending on the number of packages you've installed and depending on the speed of your rig "emerge --depclean" may take some time, and thus I tried to avoid splitting it into two calls, one to just announce what would be done and one to really do it. But meanwhile I'm suspecting that any call along the lines of # emerge --ask ... | $PAGER is doomed to fail because both, "emerge" and the pager are trying to read the user's answer from the same input device (maybe "/dev/tty") and thus both are stumbling over the other's feet. The only way out would be just another option causing "emerge" to page internally. Therefore my "edepclean" alias now calls "emerge" twice, like so: # emerge --depclean --pretend | $PAGER # emerge --depclean -- ask --quiet Sincerely, Rainer
