Bug 874618 – app-eselect/eselect-python: "eselect python set N" should output a confirmation of the selected option

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: UNCONFIRMED ---

[Description Andrew Church 2022-10-03 10:20:42 UTC]

"eselect python set N" should output a confirmation of the selected option, as (for example) gcc-config does:

$ gcc-config 2
 * Switching native-compiler to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-12.2.0 ... [ ok ]

See also bug 874351.

[Comment 1 Sam James 2022-10-04 01:05:00 UTC]

eselect-python is pretty much in "serious bugs only" maintenance mode now (see news items from a while ago). Patches welcome.

[Comment 2 Andrew Church 2022-10-04 03:17:50 UTC]

I'm not familiar with the inner workings of eselect, but if this functionality is added to eselect-wine (bug 874612), I'll see if I can do the same here.

[Comment 3 Ionen Wolkens 2022-11-15 11:43:04 UTC]

(In reply to Andrew Church from comment #2)
> I'm not familiar with the inner workings of eselect, but if this
> functionality is added to eselect-wine (bug 874612), I'll see if I can do
> the same here.
eselect doesn't have a designated command for set feedback (only warning, error, and list display), so as far as eselect-wine goes this is just going to be "echo $this happened" to be simple

gcc-config has different toys to play with (like ebegin/eend) given it loads /lib/gentoo/functions.sh (gcc's eselect module is just a wrapper to gcc-config)

That aside, eselect-python is not really used anymore so I'm not sure if it makes sense to improve it (guess some users still like the list and not having to edit python-exec.conf by hand, fwiw).

[Comment 4 Andrew Church 2023-01-01 08:31:50 UTC]

Created attachment 846346 [details, diff]
Trivial patch to add set feedback

A bit belated since I only just found time to get back to this, but it looks like this trivial patch should do what I was looking for.