Bug 458730

Summary:	emerge --help --verbose prints short help
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Mikael Magnusson <mikachu>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	Normal
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	459934

Description Mikael Magnusson 2013-02-22 12:50:25 UTC

It used to be that you could write emerge --help --verbose to see detailed information about all options, but since a while ago, this just prints the same short help as emerge --help.

Last working version seems to be 2.2.0_alpha59, in alpha60 it started printing the short output.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-02-22 15:30:19 UTC

Yes, it was removed in order to avoid duplication.

We could make it call `man 1 emerge` automatically.

Comment 2 Mikael Magnusson 2013-02-23 11:28:27 UTC

Ah, in this case, the --help output should probably have this line changed;

   emerge --help [ --verbose ]

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-02-23 19:17:50 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Ah, in this case, the --help output should probably have this line changed;
> 
>    emerge --help [ --verbose ]

Okay, this is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=94fadd2ba5296976657c005ab88be691a4e7af29

Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2013-03-02 04:30:52 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.11.53 and 2.2.0_alpha164.