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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 11:06:42 +1300 Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> wrote: |
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| On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:13:37 +0000 |
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| Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o> wrote: |
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| > My question is, how can we improve this situation? Portage really |
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| > needs a decent messaging system to convey messages like this. It's |
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| > in the works, right? It seems long overdue now... |
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| non-developer lurker here: how about (optionally) the user sets an |
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| email address in make.conf and gets emailed really important earth |
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| shattering stuff. maybe a new function in ebuilds like: |
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| eemailwarn "you need to install coldplug....blah blah..." |
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Not all users have an mta installed. Any solution along these lines |
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would need to support at a minimum these options: |
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* sending via an mta |
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* writing to the system log |
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* writing to a particular file |
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* displaying all messages post merge |
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* discarding messages |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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