Josh Saddler - Latest comments on December public service announcement

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Betelgeuse [Visitor] — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:47:30 +0000

The best command to use is repoman manifest.

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Duncan [Visitor] — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:40:10 +0000

I've been using the manifest command for some time, but I never type it out. That's what tab completion is for! =:^)

In fact, the biggest bother (even with tab completion) is that ebuild takes the full path.

ebuild /full/path/to/cat-egory/pkg/pkg-x.y-rz.ebuild manifest

becomes something like (with * indicating tab):

"eb* /f*pa*t*ca*eg*/pk*/p*y* ma*"

Clearly, the path is much more trouble than the ma* bit.

This of course does require the gentoo-bashcomp package and that it is enabled for completion either system-wise or for your particular user, but surely, anyone worried about typing a few extra chars either already has that merged and enabled or is using a similar solution of their own design.

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Kevin Bowling [Visitor] — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:45:10 +0000

Are you kidding? It's an alias. BFD. There are a lot more pressing items that need attention than removing a keyword that lots of us use.

I'll go as far as to argue the lexicon. By digesting (processing, summarizing, etc.) you build a manifest(a proof, list,etc.). Either or make sense still.

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Josh Saddler [Member] — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:59:14 +0000

I think Mart just made an outstanding case for keeping the current alias behavior. It really does take too long to type out "manifest." I mean, all those extra letters! Who can keep up! :p

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Mart Raudsepp [Visitor] — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:16:25 +0000

I use digest, not manifest, exclusively while packaging stuff for Gentoo. It is just SO much easier to type in a second, than manifest in three seconds to my typing fingers :P

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Ben Bennett [Visitor] — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:18:48 +0000

I have removed the heresy from gentoo-wiki.

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Polynomial-C [Visitor] — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:59:52 +0000

At least some warning would be nice. I used "ebuild ... digest" since I started using Gentoo in 2003 and really heard about "ebuild ... manifest" the first time in your blog entry here.

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AllenJB [Visitor] — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:53:04 +0000

Sorry, should've mentioned, the portage 2.2 rc17 man page.