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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2011-07-19 01:36:58 -0700
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2011-07-19 01:36:58 -0700
commit72f83d8078da7aab7be9236b86be1526c15a4185 (patch)
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Make emerge --noreplace identical to --selective.
This removes a very subtle difference in --noreplace package selection logic which is not very useful and triggers strange package selection choices in some cases, as reported in bug #375571.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/pym/_emerge/help.py b/pym/_emerge/help.py
index 5b5658d9f..c978ce255 100644
--- a/pym/_emerge/help.py
+++ b/pym/_emerge/help.py
@@ -565,12 +565,6 @@ def help(myopts, havecolor=1):
print(" ebuilds, or deps you specify on the command-line *will* cause")
print(" Portage to remerge the package, even if it is already installed.")
print(" Note that Portage won't remerge dependencies by default.")
- desc = "Also note that this option takes " + \
- "precedence over options such as --newuse, preventing a package " + \
- "from being reinstalled even though the corresponding USE flag settings " + \
- "may have changed."
- for line in wrap(desc, desc_width):
- print(desc_indent + line)
print()
print(" "+green("--nospinner"))
print(" Disables the spinner regardless of terminal type.")
@@ -733,8 +727,7 @@ def help(myopts, havecolor=1):
print()
print(" " + green("--selective") + " [ %s | %s ]" % \
(turquoise("y"), turquoise("n")))
- desc = "This is similar to the --noreplace option, except that it " + \
- "does not take precedence over options such as --newuse. " + \
+ desc = "This identical to the --noreplace option. " + \
"Some options, such as --update, imply --selective. " + \
"Use --selective=n if you want to forcefully disable " + \
"--selective, regardless of options like --update."