Bug 11836 – portage command line bug

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Portage Development

[Description Bart Lauwers (RETIRED) 2002-12-09 07:21:20 UTC]

Noticed the following whilst making a typo: emerge -pu -deep world  will try to emerge my whole world (see the -deep instead of --deep)  emerge -pu --deep world  will only emerge 2 the packages it is supposed to  root # qpkg -I -v portage sys-apps/portage-2.0.45-r1 * root #

[Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2002-12-09 07:41:43 UTC]

Can't fix that.

[Comment 2 Bart Lauwers (RETIRED) 2002-12-09 08:30:26 UTC]

Can't fix why? 

[Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2002-12-09 13:39:14 UTC]

It's a legal typo. I can't guess what you mean and make the code
reasonable at the same time. -deep is completely legal. So is
-kde and -ee and -beep. I can't check for words in a short
option section.

[Comment 4 Bart Lauwers (RETIRED) 2002-12-09 15:59:45 UTC]

But couldn't and shouldn't we warn that these are ambigous command options? I know they are legal but they most likely do not mean what the user wants and asking them to rewrite those options imho prevents more pain then it would cause. 

[Comment 5 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2003-02-03 07:01:02 UTC]

done.