Bug 168761

Summary:	Information about ~package in emerge.
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	NaiL <nail2001>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED LATER
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	daevid
Priority:	High	Keywords:	NeedPatch
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description NaiL 2007-02-28 17:17:45 UTC

It would be useful to see this information. see example:

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
emerge -uva <package>
[ebuild     U ] <package>-<version> [<newversion>] USE="..." ...

Expected Results:  
emerge -uva <package>
[ebuild     U ] <!|~|><package>-<version> [<~|><newversion>] USE="..." ...

<!|~|>:
! - the package has been removed from portage tree.
~ - the package has one or more masked flags (independently of packages.keywords, packages.unmask) (maybe different colors can be used to set additional information about mask or hard mask)

Comment 1 NaiL 2007-03-04 15:38:05 UTC

sorry i think i've put the versions badly, it will be like this.

Actual Results:  
emerge -uva <package>
[ebuild     U ] <package>-<newversion> [<oldversion>] USE="..." ...

Expected Results:  
emerge -uva <package>
[ebuild     U ] <~|><package>-<newversion> [<!|~|><oldversion>] USE="..." ...

Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-06-05 18:12:23 UTC

There have been similar requests in the past, and generally the problem with them is that one can't really cover all possible scenarios related to visibility stuff into they display without either overloading it completely or causing confusion due to cryptic/unexpected symbols (I think we learned that lesson with the IUSE display stuff).
If somebody is going to provide a patch for this we can take a look, but we likely won't implement this ourselves.

Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-06-06 02:32:13 UTC

*** Bug 165709 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***