"eselect python set N" should output a confirmation of the selected option, as (for example) gcc-config does: $ gcc-config 2 * Switching native-compiler to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-12.2.0 ... [ ok ] See also bug 874351.
eselect-python is pretty much in "serious bugs only" maintenance mode now (see news items from a while ago). Patches welcome.
I'm not familiar with the inner workings of eselect, but if this functionality is added to eselect-wine (bug 874612), I'll see if I can do the same here.
(In reply to Andrew Church from comment #2) > I'm not familiar with the inner workings of eselect, but if this > functionality is added to eselect-wine (bug 874612), I'll see if I can do > the same here. eselect doesn't have a designated command for set feedback (only warning, error, and list display), so as far as eselect-wine goes this is just going to be "echo $this happened" to be simple gcc-config has different toys to play with (like ebegin/eend) given it loads /lib/gentoo/functions.sh (gcc's eselect module is just a wrapper to gcc-config) That aside, eselect-python is not really used anymore so I'm not sure if it makes sense to improve it (guess some users still like the list and not having to edit python-exec.conf by hand, fwiw).
Created attachment 846346 [details, diff] Trivial patch to add set feedback A bit belated since I only just found time to get back to this, but it looks like this trivial patch should do what I was looking for.
