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On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 17:28:47 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> > More seriously, once you start working on (3), you'll realize |
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> > that just because the error msgs suck doesn't mean you can make them |
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> > better. |
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> If they "suck", they're not worth issuing, are they ? |
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Of course they are, obtuse error messages are better than none. |
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However, one of the problems with portage's output, and it threw a few |
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people with the OP's original question, is that portage makes no clear |
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distinction between error and informational messages. The, not |
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unreasonable, assumption is that when portage spews out several lines of |
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information about not being able to install a package because of version |
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requirements of other packages an error has occurred. In many cases, like |
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this one, that is simply not the case. Even some colour highlighting of |
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messages would go a fair way to improving the readability of portage's |
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output. |
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However, I am prepared to accept that changes in this department are not |
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trivial and if no one else is prepared to do something, I can either fix |
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it myself or accept it as it is. I've been using Gentoo for too long to |
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be entitled to a refund for what I paid for it. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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