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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2011-12-13
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:11:45
Message-Id: 4EDC0C1F.8030403@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2011-12-13 by "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn"
1 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
2 > Markos Chandras schrieb:
3 >> All I am saying is that the change is there for more than 2 weeks.
4 >> Imho it seems suboptimal (from user's experience perspective) to go
5 >> back to the old behavior without causing extra frustration.
6 > You can check the forums thread and poll for an indication how much
7 > frustration this would create. Also the question is whether stabilizing
8 > a quiet-build portage causes more frustration than reverting the change
9 > in unstable.
10 >
11 > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-901858.html
12 > The poll has an unusually high number of respondents, maybe an
13 > indication of how controversial that topic is.
14 >
15 >
16 > Best regards,
17 > Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
18 >
19 >
20
21 I might also add, there have already been a couple people on the mailing
22 lists wanting it back to the old way and thinking something in portage
23 got broken. Once it hits stable, there will likely be a lot of those
24 threads both on the mailing lists and forums. I actually added the
25 option to my sig hoping people will see it and not have to ask.
26
27 I know there is plans for a news item but I have to also wonder if
28 people are going to read and actually realize what the change was.
29
30 Dale
31
32 :-) :-)
33
34 --
35 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
36
37 Miss the compile output? Hint:
38 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"