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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:12:33
Message-Id: 201111111011.55078.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default by Zac Medico
1 On Thursday 10 November 2011 22:23:57 Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 11/10/2011 07:17 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
3 > > On 11/10/2011 06:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 > >> On Thursday 10 November 2011 21:11:38 Zac Medico wrote:
5 > >>> On 11/10/2011 05:56 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
6 > >>>> On Thursday 10 November 2011 20:39:11 Mike Frysinger wrote:
7 > >>>>> if you want quiet portage output, use something like --quiet when
8 > >>>>> running emerge. the verbosity of the build output isn't really an
9 > >>>>> issue imo.
10 > >>>>
11 > >>>> perhaps a more controversial question: should we make --quiet the
12 > >>>> default
13 > >>>
14 > >>> I think --quiet-build would be a reasonable default, but --quiet
15 > >>> suppresses various warning messages that I think need to be enabled by
16 > >>> default for newbies.
17 > >>
18 > >> WFM
19 > >>
20 > >> would putting this as EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in profiles/base/make.defaults
21 > >> be too hideous for people to swallow ?
22 > >
23 > > Less than sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.43 will choke on that, it's an
24 > > unrecognized option. So, we'd better just enable it by default for the
25 > > next portage release.
26 >
27 > Actually, it's been around since portage-2.1.7.5 (bug #291200). Still,
28 > it's probably better not to set it in the profile.
29
30 good point. we don't want to punish old portage users. let's enable it by
31 default in portage itself then. just add `elog` output to the portage ebuild
32 to inform users of the change ? or do we want a news item ?
33
34 what's the flag to negate the default ? --no-quiet-build ? ;)
35 -mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>