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From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: Luke Graham <luke@×××××××××.com>
Cc: list gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 05:13:51
Message-Id: 1055308253.6168.36.camel@bunyip.murdoch.edu.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage by Luke Graham
1 Have them added to /var/log/emerge.log so they are there for posterity
2 as well ... I think this would be a great enhancement.
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4 BillK
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7 On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 11:18, Luke Graham wrote:
8 > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:20 am, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote:
9 > > > Honestly, I think I'd much prefer if portage just queued all of those
10 > > > messages and displayed them at the end of the emerge. If that
11 > > > information was in a README, you'd have to go, find, and read the README
12 > > > for every package and dependency that you install. That's a lot of work.
13 > > > Since portage is supposed to be non-interactive, it shouldn't assume
14 > > > that you're gonna stick around watching the terminal while it does its
15 > > > thing. ;)
16 > >
17 > > Hmmm both are good ideas !! Why don't add some README files, that are
18 > > displayed (instead of queued) at the end of an emerge ?
19 >
20 > emerge <stuff> >output 2>&1
21 > less output
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