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From: Joshua Jackson <tsunam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Update notes on -p ?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:09:29
Message-Id: 44D8FB69.9030400@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Update notes on -p ? by Enrico Weigelt
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4 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
5 > Hi folks,
6 >
7 >
8 > some packages print out important notices on install/update.
9 > I'd like to see those notes before actually updating, so when
10 > using --pretend.
11 >
12 > I'd like to see this as an feature. We could put those texts into
13 > some ebuild variable or an separate file, so emerge can show it
14 > on emerge.
15 >
16 > Yes, I tried --changelog with several packages, but it actually
17 > didn't show up anything. And I'm not sure if the changelog isn't
18 > too much text for the user - I only want those things, which
19 > today get printed out as important notices while/after emerging.
20 >
21 >
22 > cu
23 Another option is to use the new elog feature in the 2.1 portage, if
24 you look at the make.conf.example, it'll explain how to use it. Its
25 quite useful even if its after the fact, but you won't miss them at least.
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