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On Thursday 02 September 2004 22:03, N. Owen Gunden wrote: |
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> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 01:51:15PM -0500, Mike Doty wrote: |
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> > why not have a emerge option, or when you use --pretend to display |
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> > all einfo/warn/errors. before I install a package, I always do a |
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> > emerge -pv first, as I'd imagine most do. |
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> Some if not most of the warnings and errors only pop up in certain |
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> circumstances (e.g. something about your system means you have to do |
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> additional configuration). So you'd end up with a whole host of |
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> warn/errors that may or may not apply to you. |
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It should be possible to have an extra "optional" function in ebuilds that |
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is called allready in the pretend stage, and has the restriction that it |
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must only output warning messages and the like. Of course those messages |
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can be optional. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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