Jan Kundrát posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:02:57 +0100:
> Duncan wrote: >> My thinking too, until I saw the portage dev (JStubbs?) mention it wasn't >> needed. >> >> I believe the thinking is that emerge --ask is basically emerge --pretend >> with an opportunity to continue stuck on the end, thus eliminating running >> the same command only without the --pretend again, therefore eliminating >> running portage's dep calculation step twice, once for the pretend, then >> again for the run. > > Okay, but I'd say that Portage internals like if the the same code gets > used by --ask and --pretend are not relevant for this GLEP. Why don't > add a note specifying the correct behavior? Because that code will be implemented in portage, and the portage dev likely to implement it said it was a superfluous reference. =8^) Still, I'd prefer it referenced just for definition's sake, but when the portage dev says it isn't a superfluous reference, and that particular section is specifying portage implementation... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
