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On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 18:17, Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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> Thus spake Mike C. Fletcher on Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 02:55:15PM CDT |
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> > Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > ... |
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> > >On the other side, what is really hard to configure? Where can we |
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> > >improve how we set things up when programs are emerged? |
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> Here's a big one on my wish-list! I think I saw a lengthy discussion of it |
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> in the bug tracker, or on one of the lists, and it looked like changes were |
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> in the works, but I never saw anything come down the pike that suggested |
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> that it was a done deal. Maybe it's there and it slipped by me. |
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> When I do a batch-emerge, such as 'emerge uU world', a lot of important |
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> informaton on various packages scrolls up the screen. Some of this stuff is |
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> must-read info, or stuff that would save a lot of time and research if I |
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> could read it. In Debian, with the ncurses debconf UI, I can swipe the |
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> important info screens and paste them into a file for review later. They |
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> all have <OK> buttons so they stay until you dismiss them. In Gentoo |
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> there's no way to do this. I've taken to doing emerges with my fingers |
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> ready on CTRL-S so I can stop and read, or save off, important stuff before |
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> it's gone off screen and out of the scroll buffer. Needless to say, this |
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> can eat up a lot of time. It sure would be VERY nice if there were some way |
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> to capture all the output from einfo and ewarn during a batch build so that |
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> I could go do something else and come back when the job was done and review |
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> all the messages relating to all the installed or updated packages. |
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> I'd really love for someone to tell me that this I'm a clueless RTFM idiot, |
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> that it's already done, and if I were half-way on the ball I'd be doing it |
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> already ;-) |
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It is still being worked on... there are a few preliminary patches out |
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there that do this, but nothing has gone official yet. There's always |
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/var/log/emerge.log, though... ;] |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Operational/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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