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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:18:14
Message-Id: 4EBC93CF.3060203@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default by Mike Frysinger
1 On 11/10/2011 06:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Thursday 10 November 2011 21:11:38 Zac Medico wrote:
3 >> On 11/10/2011 05:56 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 >>> On Thursday 10 November 2011 20:39:11 Mike Frysinger wrote:
5 >>>> if you want quiet portage output, use something like --quiet when
6 >>>> running emerge. the verbosity of the build output isn't really an
7 >>>> issue imo.
8 >>>
9 >>> perhaps a more controversial question: should we make --quiet the default
10 >>
11 >> I think --quiet-build would be a reasonable default, but --quiet
12 >> suppresses various warning messages that I think need to be enabled by
13 >> default for newbies.
14 >
15 > WFM
16 >
17 > would putting this as EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in profiles/base/make.defaults be too
18 > hideous for people to swallow ?
19 > -mike
20
21 Less than sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.43 will choke on that, it's an
22 unrecognized option. So, we'd better just enable it by default for the
23 next portage release.
24 --
25 Thanks,
26 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>