Michael <[email protected]> schrieb am Di., 17. Feb. 2026, 14:20:
> On Tuesday, 17 February 2026 13:02:15 Greenwich Mean Time prg wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:41:31 +0100 > > > > Pascal Schorde <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > when running --depclean, emerge outputs the entire dependency graph > > > to stdout, which quickly fills up the terminal buffer. The -q flag > > > doesn't suppress this output — it only shortens the list of > > > packages to be removed. Is there a way to skip this output, or is > > > this a missing feature? > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Do you have -v/--verbose in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS? Try --verbose=n then. > > You can run 'emerge --depclean -p -v | less' to be able to move up/down > to inspect the full output, after the command has completed producing > its output (it takes a few seconds). > > Alternatively, you can your command(s) within screen[1], or tmux[2] and > use the appropriate keybinding to jump up/down in the buffer. > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Screen > > [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Tmux Hi Michael, thanks for your reply. I think I was unclear here. I don't want more output, I want no output except for the list of packages that portage wants to remove. Does portage have such an option? I thought that the -q option could do this.
