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On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 15:49:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Running without -v doesn't help. I almost never use -v with emerge, |
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> > it's output is verbose enough as it is and burying useful messages in |
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> > even more trivial, not-for-users output makes decoding it even harder. |
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> > emerge really needs an option to hide such "informational" |
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> > messages. |
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> I disagree. emerge really needs to have it's output redesigned from |
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> scratch. Right now it arrives at the conclusion (the top) and dumps it's |
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> data tree bottom-up, apparently stopping halfway and never getting to |
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> output what the top is. |
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Well ,yes. But it also needs an option to hide QA and trivial info |
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messages. Having the same message pop up every time I run emerge, |
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because of a package I know I masked is annoying enough, but the |
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confusion it causes to many users is far more annoying. |
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Yes, I agree it needs a full overhaul of the way it communicates what is |
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happening. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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A Smith & Wesson beats Four Aces everytime. |
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