Bug 61142

Summary:	"emerge search 77" should tell user that f77/g77 is a feature, not a package
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	ivo welch <ivo.welch>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description ivo welch 2004-08-21 06:06:37 UTC

"emerge search 77"  should tell user that f77/g77 is a feature, not a package.  I was stymied for a long time why there was no fortran compiler.  more generically, available USE flags could be searched, too, not just the available packages; perhaps at the end, emerge could write---
   also available as USE flag: f77


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Brian Harring (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-22 19:31:05 UTC

Err... not much for this one personally.  Searching use flag's via emerge -s seems wrong; viewing use flags is the domain of a tool such as ufed...

Comment 2 ivo welch 2004-08-22 20:04:21 UTC

well, if I had remember that the fortran compiler g77 was a use flag, I would not have needed a reminder.  the problem is I did not remember all the use flags.  who would remember that g77 is a use flag, not an application?

it's just a friendly short reminder at the end...and it was just a suggestion to reduce dumb user questions like ming from clogging bugzilla.

the cost of adding this little note at the end must be trivial.

regards,

/iaw

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-08-25 21:06:55 UTC

the fortran compiler is part of gcc and since we dont usually split packages around here, you should have looked into gcc

adding a special case for this to emerge just doesnt sit right