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From: John Robinson <strider@××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:46:33
Message-Id: 1055270771.5105.585.camel@isengard.aravir.net
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage by Balaji Srinivasan
1 On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 14:16, Balaji Srinivasan wrote:
2 > A better idea would be if portage wrote those messages to a file and we
3 > could view it when we wanted. ie. We could have a showEbuildMessages or some
4 > such program that showed all those messages and allowed you to ack each one.
5 > I think this would be pretty useful as normally when i am fixing things i
6 > dont have time to fix all of it in one shot...
7
8 I agree; that would be an excellent idea. I would, however, at least be
9 in favor of portage printing something in red at the end of an emerge
10 stating that the file had been updated and needed to be looked at;
11 better, if it would print the (newly added) contents of the file. Some
12 of the messages printed are about crucial things that need to be done,
13 often configuration changes; leaving them to be read only if one feels
14 like it might leave people thinking that the messages there don't apply
15 to them.
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17 - John
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RE: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage Todd Berman <tberman@g.o>