Bug 32817 – Would like a new option -prompt, works like pretend, but installs after prompting

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Portage Development

[Description jon 2003-11-05 12:20:59 UTC]

I find my self doing the following steps whenever i emerge a package:

$ emerge -p <packagename>
<dependencies>
$ sudo emerge <packagename>

I would love to see an option to prompt to continue, after pretend, so that the
following results:

$ sudo emerge --prompt <package>
<dependencies>
Do you want to install the packages? (y/n)

<installing>
Done.

This is more of a chain together 'pretend' and install than totally new development.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2003-11-15 17:30:25 UTC]

emerge-prompt () {
        emerge -p $*
        read -p "continue (y/n) ? " DO_EMERGE
        [ "$DO_EMERGE" == "y" ] && emerge $*
}

should do the same, this the type of option I personally don't want to support
as they are easy to do with some minimal bash scripting, but when included in 
emerge they need docs, will be affected by API changes (there re currently happening a lot of these) and so on, creating bugs later on, therefore I'm closing this as WONTFIX.

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