Bugzilla Bug 134553

I recently updated to Portage 2.1_rc3. I usually do "emerge -vat $pkg" to see
what would be updated. Because of the "-a" "--ask", I've get asked :

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]

Until 2.1_rc2, I could just hit return, and this would be interpretd as if I
had typed "y".

That's broken now:

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
Sorry, response '' not understood. [Yes/No]

I would like it, if I could still just hit return to confirm the prompt.




alexander@blatt /var $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1_rc3 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.16-suspend2-r6.043.security-models i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-suspend2-r6.043.security-models i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M
processor         1.50GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1, 2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r1
dev-util/confcache:  0.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache collision-protect confcache distlocks
metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="        http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/  
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ 
ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/    
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/    
ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo     
http://distfiles.gentoo.org/ "
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/build"
PORTDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/tree"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/Gentoo/Portage/local-tree/misc
/usr/portage/local/layman/vmware /usr/portage/local/layman/nx
/usr/portage/local/layman/gentoo-de"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE X acpi alsa amd apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid
async avi bash-completion bdf berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bootsplash cairo
caps cardbus ccache cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom cle266 cli crypt css
curlwrappers dbus devmap dillo divx4linux dlloader dri dvd dvdread emoticon esd
exif fam fbcon fbdev firefox fping freetype gdbm gif gnokii gnome gstreamer gtk
gtk2 hal hpn icc id3 idn imap imlib imlib2 insecure-drivers insecure-savers
isdnlog javascript jikes jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility libedit
libwww linuxthreads-tls logrotate lynxkeymap mad madwifi maildir matroska mbox
mmx mmxext mozilla moznoirc mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer multicall
ncurses netboot network new-login nfs nis nls no-old-linux no-suexec noantlr
nobcel nobeanutils nobsf nobsh nocd nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nodrm nogg
nogulm nojsch nojython nolog4j nomac nooro nopri norhino noxalan noxerces
nozaptel nptl nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openssh pam_console pam_timestamp
passfile password patented pccts pcmcia pcre perl perlsuid pic player png pnp
pppd qt quicktime rar readline real recode reflection reiserfs sdl sendfile
sensord session sftp sms spell spf spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stream
subp subtitles suid symlink sysfs syslog tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts
trusted type1-fonts udev underscores unichrome unicode unsafe usb utf8 uudeview
vim vim-pager vlm vorbis wifi win32codecs wma123 x11vnc xinetd xml xmms xorg
xpm xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_evdev
input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_-synaptics
kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vesa
video_cards_vga video_cards_via"
Unset:  CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

alexander@blatt /var $

(In reply to comment #0)
I have the same problem.

Portage 2.1_rc3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.16-beyond4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-beyond4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions
-mfpmath=387"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo
/etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions
-mfpmath=387"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en el"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/xgl-coffee /usr/local/initng-portage
/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm arts
audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cairo
calender cdda cdio cdr cli crypt cups curl curlwrappers dba dbus dri dts dv dvd
dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal evo expat exscalibar fbcon fbsplash
ffmpeg fftw firefox flac foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gdbm ggi gif gimpprint
ginac glitz glut gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal
howl httpd icq idn ieee1394 imagemagik imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java
javascript joystick jpeg kde kdehiddenvisibility libcaca libg++ libwww live
lm_sensors mad matroska mcal mhash mikmod mime mmx mmxext mono motif mozilla
mp3 mpeg msession msn mysql nas ncurses netboot nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin
offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar pam pcre pdflib perl pertty
plotutils png posix pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection samba sdl
session slang snmp sockets speex spell spl sse ssl stream svg svga symlink
sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff tokenizer truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vcd vlm vorbis win32codecs wmf
wxwindows xattr xcomposite xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xpm xsl xv xvid
xvmc zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc initng_plugins_doc initng_plugins_also
initng_plugins_bash_launcher initng_plugins_chdir initng_plugins_chroot
initng_plugins_conflict initng_plugins_cpout initng_plugins_critical
initng_plugins_cron initng_plugins_daemon initng_plugins_dev
initng_plugins_dllaunch initng_plugins_envparser initng_plugins_find
initng_plugins_fstat initng_plugins_history initng_plugins_idleprobe
initng_plugins_initctl initng_plugins_interactive initng_plugins_iparser
initng_plugins_last initng_plugins_limit initng_plugins_logfile
initng_plugins_netprobe initng_plugins_ngc2 initng_plugins_pause
initng_plugins_pidfile initng_plugins_reload initng_plugins_renice
initng_plugins_rlparser initng_plugins_simple_launcher initng_plugins_stcmd
initng_plugins_stdout initng_plugins_suid initng_plugins_syncron
initng_plugins_syslog initng_plugins_unneeded initng_plugins_usplash
initng_plugins_splash input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
input_devices_evdev kernel_linux linguas_en linguas_el userland_GNU
video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_vesa"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

intentional

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 134466 ***