Bug 41294

Summary:	ekeyword should recurse dependancies
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Seth Chandler <sbc28>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Seth Chandler 2004-02-11 14:27:21 UTC

ekeyword should be changed to recurse dependancies and check for keywording....

this is especially helpful on architectures other than x86, where not all the dependancies are going to be unmasked.  For instance, installing zinf on amd64 means that three packages must be ~amd64 masked.  It'd be much easier to ekeyword --recurse /usr/portage/media-sound/zinf/zinf-2.2.5_beta1.ebuild

Or better yet

ekeyword -r media-sound/zinf-2.2.5_beta1


that would be the ulimate in convenience for porters/testers on other arches

Comment 1 Spider (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-02-11 14:59:12 UTC

ergh , no.. that could lead to -bad- behaviour. Repoman does the recurse, e*tools should not, that way you separate the "check backwards" with the "do things", with manual labour, which adds for QA.

Comment 2 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-31 13:16:23 UTC

Sorry, not going to do this.  ekeyword is a simple tool to do a simple task, it isn't going to do recursion