This is an ease of use request. Presently, Portage evaluates all non-option arguments in order, and terminates at the first problem. E.g. a mis-spelt package, or an ambigious package. It would be MUCH better if it printed problems with all arguments before exiting Present output: ----- # emerge ebtales fetchmail dev-php/pecl-imagick:0 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "ebtales". emerge: searching for similar names... emerge: Maybe you meant any of these: net-firewall/ebtables, dev-python/webtest, x11-misc/xsetleds? # emerge -1v ebtables fetchmail dev-php/pecl-imagick:0 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies \ [ Results for search key : fetchmail ] * acct-group/fetchmail Latest version available: 0 Latest version installed: 0 Size of files: 0 KiB Homepage: Description: Group for net-mail/fetchmail License: * acct-user/fetchmail Latest version available: 0 Latest version installed: 0 Size of files: 0 KiB Homepage: Description: User for net-mail/fetchmail License: * net-mail/fetchmail Latest version available: 6.4.1-r3 Latest version installed: 6.4.1-r3 Size of files: 1,229 KiB Homepage: http://www.fetchmail.info/ Description: the legendary remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility License: GPL-2 public-domain [ Applications found : 6 ] !!! The short ebuild name "fetchmail" is ambiguous. Please specify !!! one of the above fully-qualified ebuild names instead. ... done! # emerge -1v ebtables net-mail/fetchmail dev-php/pecl-imagick:0 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies - !!! Problem resolving dependencies for dev-php/pecl-imagick:0 ... done! !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "dev-php/pecl-imagick:0" has unmet requirements. - dev-php/pecl-imagick-3.4.4::gentoo USE="-examples -test" ABI_X86="(64)" PHP_TARGETS="(-php5-6) (-php7-1) -php7-2 -php7-3 -php7-4" ... ---- Desired output: ---- # emerge ebtales fetchmail dev-php/pecl-imagick:0 These are the packages that would be merged, in order: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "ebtales". emerge: searching for similar names... emerge: Maybe you meant any of these: net-firewall/ebtables, dev-python/webtest, x11-misc/xsetleds? [ Results for search key : fetchmail ] * acct-group/fetchmail Latest version available: 0 Latest version installed: 0 Size of files: 0 KiB Homepage: Description: Group for net-mail/fetchmail License: * acct-user/fetchmail Latest version available: 0 Latest version installed: 0 Size of files: 0 KiB Homepage: Description: User for net-mail/fetchmail License: * net-mail/fetchmail Latest version available: 6.4.1-r3 Latest version installed: 6.4.1-r3 Size of files: 1,229 KiB Homepage: http://www.fetchmail.info/ Description: the legendary remote-mail retrieval and forwarding utility License: GPL-2 public-domain [ Applications found : 6 ] !!! The short ebuild name "fetchmail" is ambiguous. Please specify !!! one of the above fully-qualified ebuild names instead. !!! Problem resolving dependencies for dev-php/pecl-imagick:0 ... done! !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "dev-php/pecl-imagick:0" has unmet requirements. - dev-php/pecl-imagick-3.4.4::gentoo USE="-examples -test" ABI_X86="(64)" PHP_TARGETS="(-php5-6) (-php7-1) -php7-2 -php7-3 -php7-4" ... ----
