716728 – sys-apps/portage: emerge accepts --load-average without the required argument

Bug 716728 - sys-apps/portage: emerge accepts --load-average without the required argument

Summary: sys-apps/portage: emerge accepts --load-average without the required argument

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2020-04-08 20:52 UTC by Zac Medico
Modified:	2020-04-08 21:02 UTC (History)
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Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2020-04-08 20:52:00 UTC

> # emerge --load-average portage
> 
>  * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
>  * Use eselect news read to view new items.
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> >>> Verifying ebuild manifests
> >>> Running pre-merge checks for sys-apps/portage-2.3.97

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2020-04-08 21:02:25 UTC

This behavior is actually intended, as documented in the man page. It's the same behavior as make --load-average.