Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 10 November 2011 21:11:38 Zac Medico wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 05:56 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 November 2011 20:39:11 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> if you want quiet portage output, use something like --quiet when
> >> running emerge.  the verbosity of the build output isn't really an
> >> issue imo.
> >
> > perhaps a more controversial question: should we make --quiet the default
>
> I think --quiet-build would be a reasonable default, but --quiet
> suppresses various warning messages that I think need to be enabled by
> default for newbies.

WFM

would putting this as EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in profiles/base/make.defaults be too 
hideous for people to swallow ?
-mike