Bug 73128 – "desired" stub

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description ivo welch 2004-12-02 05:50:37 UTC]

many packages for amd64 are blocked---as they should be.  however, I would love to be able to get a notice when they become unblocked.  one way to do this would be, e.g., to allow an
  emerge waitfor helixplayer

and once helixplayer becomes installable, either put a notice at the end of emerge runs, and/or to build helixplayer automatically upon an
  emerge --update world.

aside, I still believe that emerge should have a prominent --listinstalled feature, especially given that it has a prominent --search feature.  I am not the only one.

both of these should be fairly simple to implement.

and, thanks guys, for doing a terrific job.  gentoo is unrivalled, all around.

sincerely,  /iaw

[Comment 1 Brian Harring (RETIRED) 2004-12-02 05:54:20 UTC]

This should be an external tool from portage; it's not portages business to do notifications of that sort (imo).

[Comment 2 ivo welch 2004-12-02 06:42:07 UTC]

hi brian:

thanks.  there are two arguments why emerge may be the right utility.

first, the external tool needs to monitor the portage tree.  emerge already does portage tree processing at rsync time.  an alternative way would be a message that states at the end of the --sync run what packages have become newly available for our architecture.

second, "emerge --update world" would be able to take advantage of the new package by itself.  right now, I know that this rebuilds everything I need and want---except stuff that may have just become unblocked or available.

regards,

/iaw

[Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) 2005-02-28 08:55:29 UTC]

I'd agree with Brian...

I'd suggest that "hooks" be used instead of direct integration.
That's something else to wait for though.

[Comment 4 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-10-16 07:35:22 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47456 ***