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On 02/07/15 19:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 09:10:46 -0700, Joseph wrote: |
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>> >Portage is excessively verbose in it's output. With -v it dumps all |
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>> >sorts of info to the console and it's incredibly hard to read. |
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>> >It especially likes to print the full reasoning why it doesn't upgrade |
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>> >some package to latest due to a dependency requirement, and it's this |
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>> >that usually hides actual real problems in amongst all the noise. |
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>> >The level of verbosity from portage over the past year really should |
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>> >only be shown with -vvv |
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>> Thank for the hint, never thought about it. I'll try next time "emerge |
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>> -uDNavvvq world |
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>Alan was saying that portage is already very verbose, you are better off |
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>running with no -v options. That way you only see true errors and serious |
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>warnings and not all the irrelevant stuff that just gets in the way. |
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>> Yes, it was very hard to read and duped information |
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>> into the screen that wasn't relevant. |
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>Exactly, cut down on the irrelevant information by not using -v. |
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>Neil Bothwick |
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>Sisko:"I won't be condescending to you this episode, Dr. Bashir." |
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Got it. |
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I'll try it next time. When I upgrade and have to scroll via 200+ messages of emerge packages it is easy to not to notice about some critical information; in my |
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case "grub" that was calling to run "grub-install" or the system will not boot. |
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I wish the packages without any changes or warning wouldn't even show up after upgrade. |
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Joseph |
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