On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 07:01:27PM +0200, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
> 2010-07-05 18:36:09 Tomáš Chvátal napisał(a):
> > Dne 5.7.2010 18:34, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis napsal(a):
> > > python.eclass uses colors for build time outputting, which doesn't communicate anything for users.
> > >
> > +	echo " ${_RED}*${_NORMAL} ${_RED}Deprecation Warning: NEED_PYTHON
> > variable is deprecated and will be banned on 2010-10-01.${_NORMAL}"
> > +	echo " ${_RED}*${_NORMAL} ${_RED}Use PYTHON_DEPEND variable instead of
> > NEED_PYTHON variable.${_NORMAL}"
> > +	echo " ${_RED}*${_NORMAL} ${_RED}The ebuild needs to be fixed. Please
> > report a bug, if it has not been already reported.${_NORMAL}"
> > 
> > The above is build outputting since when?
> 
> The colored, non-logged output in deprecation warnings is used as exception to increase
> the chance that ebuild maintainers will be notified earlier about the necessity of changes
> in given ebuilds.

einfo/ewarn/eerror output is repeated by default when emerge exits. By
not using einfo/ewarn/eerror, you are making it less likely that others
will be reading your deprecation notices.