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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage ebuild cruft
From:       Georgi Georgiev <chutz () gg3 ! net>
Date:       2005-04-30 12:38:26
Message-ID: 20050430123826.GA101054 () lion ! gg3 ! net
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maillog: 30/04/2005-13:27:44(+0100): Elfyn McBratney types
> On Saturday 30 Apr 2005 13:07, Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen wrote:
> > On Saturday 30 April 2005 13:12, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:31:17 +0200
> > >
> > > Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > On Friday 29 April 2005 16:38, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > > > > > Heh, I get that after every invocation of emerge. :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Yep. That's the scanning of all installed packages for any provided
> > > > > virtuals.
> > > >
> > > > Why not let Portage print that before scanning?
> > >
> > > Print what?
> > > The scanning is done on the general config parsing, and you can't really
> > > do anything before that.
> >
> > Scanning configuration/installed packages or something. It just seems a bit
> > more userfriendly to print something if it takes a long while to do
> > anything.
> >
> > Just my to 0.02€
> 
> Sounds good to me, if possible.  Could we maybe be more noisy here when people 
> run with --verbose ?  You know, so your not left staring at nothingness while 
> portage does it's imports, scans, whatever ..

Also consider that Control-C doesn't really do anything at that stage.

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