Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@×××××××.no>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gpm & mozilla bugs -- Suggestion for Portage extensions
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:29:57
Message-Id: 20010920222404.A5179@prosalg.no
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gpm & mozilla bugs -- Suggestion for Portage extensions by Mikael Hallendal
1 On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 03:46:24PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
2 > Hmm .. this system sounds awkward to me. Daniel had some idea about some
3 > post-inst-message system, that queued up all post-inst-messages and
4 > showed the user in the end, when emerge is finished with all packages.
5 >
6 > This might be a good way and sounds (too me) better then a
7 > notices-system.
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9 What I don't like about that is that if you don't manually cut'n'paste the
10 instructions into a save file somewhere, they are lost for posterity if
11 you close the terminal they were printed in.
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13 The only way to get the message back would be to do a new emerge with the
14 exact same conditions, which is, in practice, hopeless.
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17 Karl T