Hello! I've got a couple of suggestions for emerge:
1.) I apparently cannot exclude one or two packages from a large emerge action. For example if I say 'emerge -upv world' or 'emerge -Dupv xorg-x11' it may pull in some large updates I do not want to do, like gcc or glibc but there is no such thing as an exclusion list like 'emerge -Dupv xorg-x11 --except gcc glibc' to stop it from emerging these but let it do everything else. 2.) If I use the --ask option it also only asks for the whole large action once but I cannot make it ask about every single package in a large update action. Even handier could be an edit list in the style of etc-update, like one could select some packages from a list by their number, say yes or no for them, and then say '-3' for the rest and go get a coffee until it finishes. 3.) There is no way to print a bare list of package atoms without colors, newlines and anything about what an 'emerge -upv' action would be merging which could then be cut&pasted, edited, or whatever. I mean a list like what revdep-rebuild is printing out before actually emerging packages. I suggest a new --listonly flag or maybe reusing the '-q' flag for that which currently does not seem to do anything. What do you think? Thanks, Sab -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
