On Thursday 10 November 2011 19:09:28 Luca Barbato wrote:
> On 11/5/11 1:58 AM, Kacper Kowalik wrote:
> > I'd like to ask that we enable verbose building by default. I have
> > cmake-utils.eclass in mind, because it's dead easy there, but there's a
> > lot of packages that support things like "make V=1" or "make VERBOSE=1"
> > too.
> > 
> > I've seen too many bugs reports today that gave me cute, colorful
> > build.logs and almost no information about underlaying bug...
> 
> That could be done, but I'd advise to make sure our users know that the
> could have a quiet/silent output from portage.

if you want quiet portage output, use something like --quiet when running 
emerge.  the verbosity of the build output isn't really an issue imo.
-mike