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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:12:18
Message-Id: 4EBC845A.1000004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default by Mike Frysinger
1 On 11/10/2011 05:56 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Thursday 10 November 2011 20:39:11 Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 >> On Thursday 10 November 2011 19:09:28 Luca Barbato wrote:
4 >>> On 11/5/11 1:58 AM, Kacper Kowalik wrote:
5 >>>> I'd like to ask that we enable verbose building by default. I have
6 >>>> cmake-utils.eclass in mind, because it's dead easy there, but there's a
7 >>>> lot of packages that support things like "make V=1" or "make VERBOSE=1"
8 >>>> too.
9 >>>>
10 >>>> I've seen too many bugs reports today that gave me cute, colorful
11 >>>> build.logs and almost no information about underlaying bug...
12 >>>
13 >>> That could be done, but I'd advise to make sure our users know that the
14 >>> could have a quiet/silent output from portage.
15 >>
16 >> if you want quiet portage output, use something like --quiet when running
17 >> emerge. the verbosity of the build output isn't really an issue imo.
18 >
19 > perhaps a more controversial question: should we make --quiet the default ?
20 > -mike
21
22 I think --quiet-build would be a reasonable default, but --quiet
23 suppresses various warning messages that I think need to be enabled by
24 default for newbies.
25 --
26 Thanks,
27 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>