Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 0/4] Output rewrite for better clarify and greppability

[Michał Górny]

On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 11:28 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 10:20 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Ok, so it's more major than I originally intended but I think it's
> > a good direction (once you get used to it). Roughly:
> >
> > 1. All bash color vars are now prefixed with `PORTAGE_COLOR_` to avoid
> >    accidental collisions with ebuild vars (e.g. ebuild setting
> >    `GOOD=foo` broke `elog` before).
> > 2. There are specific color vars for all kinds of output functions,
> >    and now `einfo` messages use distinct color (dark green) from `elog`,
> >    and `eqawarn` (brown) from `ewarn`.
> > 3. Messages are now prefixed by their kind, making it possible to
> >    distinguish them without colors and grep for specific kind of logs:
> >    - `[--]` for einfo & ebegin
> >    - `[II]` for elog
> >    - `[WW]` for ewarn
> >    - `[QA]` for eqawarn
> >    - `[EE]` for eerror
> > 4. Finally, I've replaced most of `>>>` and `!!!` in Portage output with
> >    four `>>>>` and `!!!!` to align the output again.
>
> I like it.
>
> Maybe add a reference to this bug? https://bugs.gentoo.org/728046
>

Oh right, I also need to work on removing redundant 'QA Notice:'
thingies.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny