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Bug 831467

Summary: sys-apps/portage is printing spinner in middle of ambiguous name search results
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component: Core - Interface (emerge)Assignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Michał Górny archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-01-19 09:18:57 UTC
For example:

```
[ Results for search key : httpcore ]
*  dev-java/httpcore
      Latest version available: 4.4.14
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 578 KiB
      Homepage:      https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core-ga
      Description:   Apache HttpComponents Core (blocking I/O)
      License:       Apache-2.0

 \*  dev-python/httpcore
      Latest version available: 0.14.5
      Latest version installed: 0.14.4
      Size of files: 73 KiB
      Homepage:      https://www.encode.io/httpcore/
      Description:   A minimal low-level HTTP client
      License:       BSD

[ Applications found : 4 ]

!!! The short ebuild name "httpcore" is ambiguous. Please specify
!!! one of the above fully-qualified ebuild names instead.

... done!
```

I suppose it should disable printing the spinner when it's already outputting search results.