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Bug 613456 - sys-apps/portage emerge --ask should run pkg_pretend before asking
Summary: sys-apps/portage emerge --ask should run pkg_pretend before asking
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2017-03-22 07:04 UTC by Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED)
Modified: 2018-08-20 08:59 UTC (History)
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Description Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2017-03-22 07:04:06 UTC
I really get frustrated running an emerge --ask , and then coming back, finding portage has told me "hey, yep, this will work", pressing "y", and then finding "no, this won't work".

That's wasted effort.


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

>>> Verifying ebuild manifests
>>> Running pre-merge checks for dev-java/icedtea-7.2.6.9
 * Checking for at least 8500 MiB disk space at "/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/icedtea-7.2.6.9/temp" ...                                                                                                                                                                          [ ok ]
>>> Running pre-merge checks for www-client/firefox-52.0.1-r1
 * Checking for at least 4 GiB disk space at "/var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-52.0.1-r1/temp" ...        

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If this default is too controversial to change, can we have an option to put in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS ? I'm really tired of this behaviour. 



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sys-apps/portage-9999::gentoo was built with the following:
USE="doc (ipc) native-extensions xattr -build -epydoc (-selinux)" ABI_X86="64" LINGUAS="-ru" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_4 python3_5 -pypy -python2_7 -python3_6"

git --no-pager -C /usr/portage/distfiles/git3-src/proj_portage.git/ log --format=fuller -1
commit 9e0f0364ffb187ad784f3ba63a02b8e170d72de0
Author:     Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2016-06-13 16:21:51 +1200
Commit:     Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2017-03-11 11:58:30 +1300