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On 11/14/2011 12:25 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: |
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> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 05:59:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>> Well, it's much easier to gather interest and get feedback if we deploy |
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>> the change and ask questions later. |
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> What if we tried solving this problem by providing more options instead |
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> of trying to guess what the users want? :) |
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> |
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> Imagine the following output (when jobs == 1): |
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>>>> Verifying ebuild manifests |
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>>>> Emerging (1 of 1) www-client/chromium-16.0.912.36 |
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>>>> Quiet building enabled. Enable for [P]ackage or [S]ession. [L]earn more. |
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>>>> Jobs: 0 of 1 complete, 1 running Load avg: 0.23, 0.18, 0.10 |
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> |
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> Pressing P would only show the log for the actively built package. |
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> Pressing S would show all the logs for this session, starting with the |
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> active one. |
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> Pressing L would print out a short set of instructions, something |
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> like: |
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> "To make portage output easier to track and understand, --quiet-build |
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> has been enabled by default. You may restore the old, verbose behavior |
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> temporarily by using the P and S commands, or permanently by adding |
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> '--quiet-build=n' to your make.conf's EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS." |
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> I believe many users would appreciate the ability to output logs on |
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> demand. :) |
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I think that would be an interesting option. We could put stdin in raw |
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mode, like dispatch-conf does, in order to read single characters of |
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input instead of whole lines. |
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I can imagine that this option wouldn't be desired by some people, if |
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only because emerge would consume all keystrokes from the input buffer. |
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In the past we had a few portage releases that consumed keystrokes like |
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that (it was part of the support for interactive ebuilds), and I recall |
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someone (I think it was grobian) complaining because he had a habit of |
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typing his next shell command before emerge had completed. |
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-- |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |