On Mon, Aug 2, 2021, at 09:33, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > What I'm trying to solve is reading the > output from "emerge --depclean" one screen full at a time and at the end > being asked whether or not I really want to unmerge all packages listed. > And just running > > $ emerge --ask --depclean | less > > did not work when tested with a single package to be removed: the output > from "emerge" was displayed on less than a single screen causing "less" > to just terminate due to my setting of environment variable "LESS", but > "emerge" never issued the question whether or not to continue nor did it > accept an answer. I had to kill it with "^C" from the shell. >
Depending what desktop environment/terminal emulator, there are a few options. You could use a terminal like gnome-terminal, konsole, etc. which have scroll so you can run `emerge -ca' and scroll to view the results. I run urxvt in i3 (not sure whether it scrolls or not), and I always run emerge inside of a tmux and use tmux's scroll to view all the output before making a decision, so you could also use tmux or screen. Hope this helps, Alec
