Re: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage

[John Robinson <strider@aravir.net>]

> I know i know. there are some text at the end of the emerge that
> says what you should do.
> 
> But when your doind multiple emerge's one after the other and you
> leave gentoo todo its thing. You don't see the text.
> 
> So if there was a nice README file that explain the 'extra' setting
> needed on each dir in portage then it would make things a LOT easier
> and would be very helpful.

Honestly, I think I'd much prefer if portage just queued all of those
messages and displayed them at the end of the emerge. If that
information was in a README, you'd have to go, find, and read the README
for every package and dependency that you install. That's a lot of work.
Since portage is supposed to be non-interactive, it shouldn't assume
that you're gonna stick around watching the terminal while it does its
thing. ;)

- John

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