> On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:19:53 Daevid Vincent wrote: > > Honestly, I really don't see how they're even remotely > related. So either > > I'm just dense, or the maintainer is not understanding my > request... It's > > extremely frustrating. > > > > [Bug 165709] When viewing "emerge -avu world" show which > packages are > > stable (or ~x86) > > > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165709 is my original one > >
> So... it will be a lot easier for me to tell you what your > options are wrt. > working around this bug if you post the output of: > > # emerge -Dup world --tree --verbose Thanks, but I don't have a bug to solve here. Just the feature request. > Wrt. bug #165709 I'd probably have pointed you towards > app-portage/eix and > resolved it as WONTFIX or even INVALID as I really don't see > the point in > that feature request. There are a lot of tools including eix > that are a lot > more suitable for queries about what is stable and what isn't. I do > understand jakubs reasoning for thinking it's triggered by > bug #157361 and > hence marking it a dupe of that though. Yes, but then I have to manually, one at a time search eix and compare to the output of 'emerge world'. I use eix. That's actually why I suspect that the feature could be implemented fairly easily. Portage has all the info it needs. > I think reopening the same bug 3 times is a terrible idea. It > clearly doesn't help anyone. Nor does just blindly closing it without really comprehending what the request is for. > The most obvious options after the first time > are to CC the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias on the bug to make the portage > devs aware of it > (while commenting about why you do that), or to post a mail > here, on the > gentoo-dev-portage@ mailing list (this is a feature request > for portage after > all) or log onto irc and talk to the portage devs in > #gentoo-portage on freenode. Actually, I'll just concede defeat. :( Obviously the maintainer has either a closed mind and is unwilling to consider my request, or he just doesn't "get it" and wants to lump two disjointed bugs together. I get the feeling that even after all the work to get it into an "official" bug/request. I'll either be greeted with "learn python and code it yourself as a patch", or it will sit there forever amongst the thousands of other bugs... Mostly by posting here, I just wanted to know if I was missing something obvious and being a retard or if the maintainer was... *sigh* ...also that maybe someone else would say, "oh yeah, I like that idea" and perhaps could articulate it better than I... DÆVID -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
