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From: Rafael Goncalves Martins <rafaelmartins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:50:22
Message-Id: CAHgY3qcgjgSEppJM0faimZhgnLgkbTXS43Cooh5XXDxS8Vys=g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Saturday 12 November 2011 17:24:08 Patrick Lauer wrote:
3 >> On 11/11/11 16:44, Zac Medico wrote:
4 >> >> good point.  we don't want to punish old portage users.  let's enable it
5 >> >> by default in portage itself then.  just add `elog` output to the
6 >> >> portage ebuild to inform users of the change ?  or do we want a news
7 >> >> item ?
8 >> >>
9 >> >> what's the flag to negate the default ?  --no-quiet-build ? ;)
10 >> >
11 >> > It's --quiet-build=n. I've gone ahead and enabled it for release in
12 >> > portage-2.1.10.34:
13 >> >
14 >> > http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=0cc1
15 >> > 74b6fc28feb26ea151d76f794e0ff2c2fa39
16 >>
17 >> Lots of people in #gentoo are unhappy with it.
18 >
19 > most changes people will be unhappy with because it's different
20 >
21 >> Most devs will be unhappy as it makes it harder to view the log while
22 >> building.
23 >
24 > devs are not the normal case.  it's trivial to have them use --quiet-build=n
25 > in their default emerge opts.
26
27 Then why not you and the other 2 guys that approved this change here
28 (and are the only people I saw approving this, TBH), add
29 --quiet-build=y to your default emerge opts and avoid this kind of
30 change?
31
32 Regards,
33
34 --
35 Rafael Goncalves Martins
36 Gentoo Linux developer
37 http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>