On 11/10/2011 10:59 PM, Duncan wrote:
> Zac Medico posted on Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:11:38 -0800 as excerpted:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> What's the difference in output format between --quiet, and the output 
> one gets with parallel portage jobs (not just MAKEOPTS but emerge-jobs, 
> too) turned on (my default these days)?
> 
> If it's the same as with parallel emerge-jobs, yeah, quiet emerges by 
> default makes sense to me.

It's identical.

> But please do at least einfo the change, and what to do to get back to 
> non-quiet by default if desired.  Someone mentioned a news item.  I'm not 
> sure it warrants that, but certainly an einfo, and if a news item will 
> prevent needless bugs and is thought to be worth the required 
> bureaucracy, I've no problem with it.

Yeah, I think a new item is a bit too much. I'll mention it in the
ebuild ChangeLog, the RELEASE-NOTES, and I'll also trigger an elog
message when upgrading from earlier versions.
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Thanks,
Zac