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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portage einfo, elog... output format change
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:37:57
Message-Id: 37617108e6472f7354c2aff9a229d080a5cc73f1.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Portage einfo, elog... output format change by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 18:26 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > > > > > > On Tue, 28 Sep 2021, Michał Górny wrote:
3 >
4 > > The proposed new format distinguished message types both using
5 > > colors
6 > > and strings. This is roughly inspired by Xorg logs.
7 >
8 > Using the same markers as Xorg (especially [--]) but with different
9 > meaning may be confusing though. Xorg has these:
10 >
11 >     Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
12 >     (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
13 >     (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
14 >
15 > So, maybe change einfo from [--] to [II]?
16
17 Nah, the whole point is to avoid letters since it's not very important.
18 Alternatively to '[--]' I could make it look down '[..]' or maybe even
19 without eyes entirely '[ ]'.
20
21 --
22 Best regards,
23 Michał Górny

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