From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29695 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Jun 2003 18:46:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1878 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2003 18:46:33 -0000 From: John Robinson To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <3A96A5B2A1D8AB46B99849DDF1F0BF1E2284EA@sc-msexch-07.extremenetworks.com> References: <3A96A5B2A1D8AB46B99849DDF1F0BF1E2284EA@sc-msexch-07.extremenetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1055270771.5105.585.camel@isengard.aravir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3- Date: 10 Jun 2003 14:46:11 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage X-Archives-Salt: 36f8077e-cadd-4598-80b7-894692fe008f X-Archives-Hash: e865e3b715e47a234c270209d390d573 On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 14:16, Balaji Srinivasan wrote: > A better idea would be if portage wrote those messages to a file and we > could view it when we wanted. ie. We could have a showEbuildMessages or some > such program that showed all those messages and allowed you to ack each one. > I think this would be pretty useful as normally when i am fixing things i > dont have time to fix all of it in one shot... I agree; that would be an excellent idea. I would, however, at least be in favor of portage printing something in red at the end of an emerge stating that the file had been updated and needed to be looked at; better, if it would print the (newly added) contents of the file. Some of the messages printed are about crucial things that need to be done, often configuration changes; leaving them to be read only if one feels like it might leave people thinking that the messages there don't apply to them. - John -- Love justice; desire mercy. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list