Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Guessing a package by short name

2007-03-15 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: My only concern is about consistency. IE the portage backend (if I recall correctly) should return all matching nodes; emerge would then take that list and find the first one that matches in the vdb. However it becomes a bit

[gentoo-portage-dev] [RFC] Guessing a package by short name

2007-03-14 Thread Daniel Barkalow
I think emerge should be able to do better with guessing what I mean by sudo. How about, if: 1) ask or pretend is on, and 2) exactly one package with a given short name is in world or is installed it will print a message explaining the ambiguity, but will proceed with the package from world.