Bug 624094

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: summarize hard blockers at the end of all the output
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	kingjon3377, tsmksubc
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250286
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2017-07-07 10:56:08 UTC

I was hitting (again) bug 606730 when trying to update another computer. I was planning to simply run "emerge -C" on offending texlive packages but, when running the full emerge -avuDN world... the offending packages listed in red in the packages lists are too far from the end of the output. The screen is bloated with the longer (and useless for administrator) explanatory messages about "...texlive-basic-2016... pulled in by
[lots of lines with all the other texlive packages pulling it"

Hence, I need to constantly go up an down copying and pasting the offending packages to unmerge them. Wouldn't it be better to shown that packages whose need manual intervention (to remove them) at the end of the output instead of the other information that is ok but not useful to *resolve* the blockers (from an administrator point of view) ?

Thanks a lot