On Friday 03 April 2009, Wyatt Epp wrote:
> Greets,
>
> So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things
> that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so.
> Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show
> one mask at a time. So I was curious...what have people that are
> *not* myself and my mate noticed that is mildly irritating and
> disruptive to the Gentoo experience?
>
> Cheers,
> Wyatt
aemaeth portage # emerge -a1 app-editors/joe-3.5
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies t,
!!! 'app-editors/joe-3.5' is not a valid package atom.
!!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.
!!! (Did you specify a version but forget to prefix
with '='?)
...
done!
aemaeth portage # emerge -C app-editors/joe-3.5
app-editors/joe
selected: 3.5
protected: none
omitted: none
>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
>>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.
>>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting...
>>> (Control-C to abort)...
>>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1
>>> Unmerging app-editors/joe-3.5...
* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
Why in some circumstances emerge is perfectly able to spot user omission
and fill-in it automatically, while with other options it just
complains?
The inability to add missing "=" and the inconsistence annoy me. IMHO
emerge should be able to add the equal sign when it makes perfect sense
as it already does sometimes.
Ciao
Francesco
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