Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Deprecating 'emerge action' syntax

2006-02-16 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:31, Marius Mauch wrote: Right now 'emerge action' and 'emerge --action' are both supported. But as we learned with the rsync case 'emerge action' has potential namespace conflicts with 'emerge package' I'd propose to deprecate 'emerge action' before we hit

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Deprecating 'emerge action' syntax

2006-02-16 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:04:20 + Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:31:25 +0100 Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Right now 'emerge action' and 'emerge --action' are both supported. | But as we learned with the rsync case 'emerge action' has potential |

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Deprecating 'emerge action' syntax

2006-02-16 Thread solar
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:04 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: [snip] If by deprecate you mean to detect when '--' hasn't been prepended and either go ahead with the action or notify that the package doesn't exist then I have no objections. Might be better to go with the latter so that users

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Deprecating 'emerge action' syntax

2006-02-16 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 17 February 2006 05:30, solar wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:04 +0100, Marius Mauch wrote: [snip] If by deprecate you mean to detect when '--' hasn't been prepended and either go ahead with the action or notify that the package doesn't exist then I have no objections.