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From: Anton Starikov <antst@×××××××.se>
To: Gentoo Devt <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package notices
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 18:06:54
Message-Id: 41376137.1050608@ifm.liu.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package notices by purslow@sympatico.ca
1 At least they can be collected in some buffer and dumped to the output
2 stream after process of emerging. It can be realy helpfull, when you
3 emerge more than one package at time.
4
5 purslow@×××××××××.ca wrote:
6 > 040901 Eldad Zack wrote:
7 >
8 >>I've got an idea to implement package notices,
9 >>as opposed to outputing these important messages to stdout
10 >>The idea is VERY simple: write the message to a file
11 >>-- say, /var/portage/notices/{P} --
12 >>and have a utility to read and delete these messages.
13 >
14 >
15 > as a mere user, i wd find this definitely helpful.
16 > at present, important warnings etc can get lost in the copious Emerge output.
17 >
18 > keep it simple: such msgs sb written to appropriately-named files
19 > in some obvious subdirectory under /usr/portage ;
20 > leave it to the user to delete them whenever s/he decides;
21 > make it an option in /etc/make.conf .
22 >
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