Bug 199527 – Deprecated use of 'emerge --help config'

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org

[Description Tobias Heinlein (RETIRED) 2007-11-18 14:01:09 UTC]

Simon Linden just informed me via mail that the handbook (see URL field) tells the user to run "emerge --help config" to get more information about Portage's Configuration File Protection. However, this apparently is not right anymore with regards to bug 137483.

$ emerge --help config
*** Deprecated use of action 'config', use '--config' instead
$ emerge --help --config
$

[Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) 2007-11-18 22:50:17 UTC]

The warning does pop up when running the old 'emerge --help config', but nothing happens when I run 'emerge --help --config', so I don't think that's a solution, either. And yes, even though the man page says that --help should work for options like --config, it doesn't work for that one. (stable 2.1.3.19)

CCing the Portage guys to figure out what to do for this one.

[Comment 2 Zac Medico 2007-11-19 07:03:36 UTC]

We moved those docs into the "CONFIGURATION FILES" section of the emerge.1 manpage, so it should tell them to run `man emerge` instead of `emerge --help config`.

[Comment 3 nm (RETIRED) 2007-11-19 07:45:37 UTC]

Alright, 'man emerge' it is. Thanks.

[Comment 4 nm (RETIRED) 2007-11-19 07:51:40 UTC]

Fixed in CVS.