# This script is written for those stupid people like me # who like launching several emerge at the same time # It tries to determine whether launching a new emerge at once is risky or not. # It can take one or two arguments. # Each argument can be composite; composite arguments are delimited with " # if you give two arguments, it says whether the two emerge can be done in parallel: # $ emerge-diff xmms wireless-tools # usually returns OK, because their dependencies do not overlap. # $ emerge-diff xmms xmms # will always fails since dependencies of xmmms overlap with himself. # $ emerge-diff "xmms wireless-tools" "enlightenment mplayer" # will tell if it is possible to do side by side: # $ emerge xmms wireless-tools # $ emerge enlightenment mplayer # If the script reports any risk, it will print the list of # common dependencies between the first and the second argument. # If you first emerge the list returned, then you can emerge side # by side the first and second argument without breaking any thing. # if you provide only one argument, the script will list # the running emerges, and build the dependency list of all packages being emerged. # this allows to determine whether you can start a 2nd (or 3rd) emerge # without stopping the ones already running to add arguments. # # If you supply only one agument, the script WILL NOT analyse whether # already running emerges may break portage !!! # emerge-diff # without any argument will list packages being emerged. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. please merge this script in portage of gentoolkit :D
I can't see this going into stable just because parallel merging isn't officially supported. There is code to make it work better than before, but it's certainly not perfect. Thus I don't see the point of adding tools to check to make sure unsupported funcationality is 'safe'.
> Thus I don't see the point of adding tools to check > to make sure unsupported funcationality is 'safe'. because some ppl could find it funny and would use it in ~x86 ? even if 100 people around the world use it as unstable, I d still be glad to provide a script nobody could write before me, and let users feel a bit more free than before I enter the comunity.
I think this script was written when I was a bit too young, and is not usefull for the comunity, and may be too buggy to be debugged. Closing request.
