Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

[Dale]

Zac Medico wrote:
> On 11/14/2011 04:36 AM, Dale wrote:
>> Zac Medico wrote:
>>> 1) I estimate that the flooding of the terminal with build output is
>>> useless for more than 99% of users. Usually, there's too much
>>> information scrolling by at too high of a rate for it to be
>>> intelligible. Having this as the default behavior is ridiculous and
>>> leads to jokes like apt-gentoo [1]. Generally, people who want to
>>> analyze build output are best served by PORT_LOGDIR.
>> One key.  Scroll Lock.  You can look all you want then hit it again to
>> let it carry on.  There is also ctrl Z as well.  I use that a good bit
>> to see what is going on.  Just type in fg to carry on.
>>
>> As for progress, genlop -c does that already.
> We're not stopping you from using your preferred approach. Just set
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" in /etc/make.conf if it suits you.
>
>
Well, I'm off to disable another default being pushed out.  I just 
wonder if make.conf is going to end up the largest file portage uses one 
day.  :/   Every time something changes, I go add another setting to 
make.conf.

As I type:

emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42%

So far that's the winner.  As I posted earlier, people expect things to 
work like they have always worked.  I say that as a user.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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