Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

[Alex Alexander]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 07:22:19AM -0800, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 11/14/2011 12:47 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:59, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
> >> Well, it's much easier to gather interest and get feedback if we deploy
> >> the change and ask questions later.
> >
> > I like the new output, but find it kind of annoying that there's very
> > little feedback on how far the progress is within a single job.
> > Perhaps we could show the currently executing ebuild phase in order to
> > give a little more feedback? Maybe most packages are completely
> > dominated by src_compile(), but for smaller packages it would be
> > helpful, IMO.
>
> I think that would be an interesting option. I imagine that it would be
> too much information for many people, so I don't think that we'd want to
> enable it by default.

I like the idea as well. IMO it would make a sane default. Not too
noisy, not too silent.

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