Bug 84289 – emerge --help doesn't document all short options

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Marien Zwart (RETIRED) 2005-03-06 04:36:28 UTC]

emerge --help misses a few short options. I've added the ones in emerge's shortmapping that were missing and fixed two lines that wrap on an 80 column terminal while I was at it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. want to emerge --newuse world a lot


Actual Results:  
fingers get tired from typing --newuse all the time.

Expected Results:  
told me I want -N

Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9
Portage 2.0.51.19 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-3.4.3-20050110,
glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r1-m1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r1-m1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.4-r2 [2.4 (#1, Feb 22 2005, 15:02:34)]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.4-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r5
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache confcache distlocks noauto prelink
sandbox test userpriv usersandbox verify-rdepend"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/
http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage//packages/x86/"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage/"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X alsa ansi bzip2 ccache cdr crypt dlloader emacs faad
fbcon flac gnome gtk2 javascript jit jpeg kdeenablefinal libcaca maildir md5sum
mmx mmx2 mng mozdevelop mozsvg mpeg ncurses nethack network nls no-helpbrowser
no-old-linux nptl nptlonly oggvorbis opengl pam png python qemu-fast quicktime
readline rtc sdl softmmu spell splash sse ssl svg symlink tetex truetype
truetype-fonts unicode userlocales xml2 xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Marien Zwart (RETIRED) 2005-03-06 04:37:30 UTC]

Created attachment 52778 [details, diff]
patch to emergehelp.py

[Comment 2 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-07-14 05:47:30 UTC]

Fixed on or before 2.0.51.22-r1 

[Comment 3 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-07-14 06:58:20 UTC]

Looking through the batch of bugs, I'm not sure that some of these are 
actually fixed in stable. Others, the requirements have possibly changed after 
the initial fix was committed. 
 
If you think this bug has been closed incorrectly, please reopen or ask that 
it be reopened. 

[Comment 4 Marien Zwart (RETIRED) 2005-07-14 11:34:03 UTC]

The improvements from the attached patch don't seem to be in portage-2.0.51.22,
which is the latest portage in the tree and x86 stable. Reopening.

[Comment 5 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-07-28 07:24:38 UTC]

Putting a hold on feature requests for portage as they are drowning out the 
bugs. Most of these features should be available in the next major version of 
portage. But for the time being, they are just drowning out the major bugs and 
delaying the next version's progress. 
 
Any bugs that contain patches and any bugs for etc-update or dispatch-conf can 
be reopened. Sorry, I'm just not good enough with bugzilla. ;) 

[Comment 6 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2007-01-11 14:43:00 UTC]

Reopening for consideration.

[Comment 7 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2007-02-17 08:54:40 UTC]

Seems to be fixed already.