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

[Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

Have them added to /var/log/emerge.log so they are there for posterity
as well ... I think this would be a great enhancement.

BillK


On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 11:18, Luke Graham wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 06:20 am, Philippe Lafoucrière wrote:
> > > 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. ;)
> >
> > Hmmm both are good ideas !! Why don't add some README files, that are
> > displayed (instead of queued) at the end of an emerge ?
> 
> emerge <stuff> >output 2>&1
> less output
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Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>


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