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

[Zac Medico]

On 11/14/2011 05:11 AM, Dale wrote:
> Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:
>> Excerpts from Dale's message of 2011-11-14 13:43:36 +0100:
>>> Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:
>>>> Excerpts from Dale's message of 2011-11-14 13:17:28 +0100:
>>>>> Here is some feedback then.  I liked it the way it was.  When a
>>>>> build fails, I do a one of install of that package and I like to
>>>>> see the output.  Why, because sometimes it gives me a hint as to
>>>>> why it failed or something I can google for.
>>>> If it fails you get tail of build.log, so you see it anyway.
>>> That doesn't always go back far enough tho.  I have on my new rig seen
>>> the failure be as far back as a couple hundred lines.
>> Well, don't say that if problem is hundreds lines back you search it in
>> that output.  I'd use for that purpose "less build.log" anyway.
>>
>>
>
> If emerge puts it on the screen like it always has, I won't need to go
> to any build.log.  It will be there on the screen already since I have
> history set to save everything.

This is already the case with --quiet-build. In the event of a build
failure, emerge dumps the *entire* log to the terminal. So, the above
dialog is discussing a problem that doesn't even exist.
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Thanks,
Zac