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From: Tom Knight <tomk@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:12:17
Message-Id: 20041113171215.GA18275@earwig.bogus
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:45:22PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > Just a reminder not to do thinks like einfo "********************" in
3 > ebuilds... It's kinda ugly, and it's one of the few 'decided a loooong
4 > time ago' stylistic things which is actually covered in the ebuild doc.
5 >
6 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70848 for the tracker bug.
7 >
8
9 [snip]
10
11 I've added a few more of these to the tracker bug. I also came accross a few
12 e{warn,info} messages that had something like this: *** Warning! ***=20
13
14 What's the policy on this? Are they OK or should they be considered the same
15 as a line of stars or hyphens?
16
17
18 --
19 Tom Knight
20 tomk@g.o
21 GPG Public Key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomk/tomk.asc

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Re: [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>