Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portage einfo, elog... output format change

[Wolfgang E. Sanyer]

I love it - this is similar to the xorg log output, and i think it makes
the portage output much cleaner and easier to read.

El mar., 28 de septiembre de 2021 11:36 a. m., Michał Górny <
mgorny@g.o> escribió:

> Hi, everyone.
>
> I know I'm going to regret asking this... but I've prepared a change to
> the Portage output format and I think it asks for a wider discussion
> than internally in Portage team.
>
> The primary problem with the current output format is that different
> kinds of messages differ only in color.  This makes them
> indistinguishable without colors and hard to grep.  ago's been asking
> for a better way to grep for QA warnings and this is pretty much what
> motivated me to do this.
>
> The proposed new format distinguished message types both using colors
> and strings.  This is roughly inspired by Xorg logs.  For example,
> instead of:
>
>  * some message
>  * other message
>  * hell if i know what this is
>
> You get:
>
> [WW] some message
> [EE] other message
> [QA] hell if i know what this is
>
> I've also added more colors to explicitly distinguish einfo from elog,
> and ewarn from eqawarn.  Then, I've replaced most of '>>>' and '!!!'
> used by Portage with four-character versions to keep messages aligned.
> The 'zings' used for merging files remain three-character, so now it's
> easily possible to distinguish messages from installed file list.
>
> The PR doing this is: https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/759
>
> Example screenshot:
>
> https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/110765/135119090-16e9599d-1b0f-41b8-a965-a55577183ffd.png
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
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