Re: [gentoo-dev] Putting qa warnings to a text file instead of showing them to the world

[Lares Moreau <lares.moreau@gmail.com>]

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On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 21:41 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 12:54:04AM +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
> > 
> >>Currently there are quite a few ebuilds in the tree that execute dodoc
> >>or dohtml for files that do not exist. I think it would be nice to have
> >>ebuilds die if this is the case. To not break current ebuilds this would
> >>only happen with FEATURES="stricter". This is what I currently do in my
> >>bashrc. Obviously when integreted to portage one can use helper
> >>functions like hasq which are not available in bashrc.
> >>
> >>
> 
> Well some people opposed this idea so what do everyone think about
> making portage output stuff like this to a qa-warnings (or whatever)
> file that developers can use? This would have the added benefit that
> users would not normally see this stuff and report stuff so easily but
> developers would still have easy access to it. Portage could even output
> a header to this file saying not to file bug reports unless you know
> what you are doing?

I see the point about not showing all the QA stuff to the 'regluar'
user.  Maybe only show this info on screen with --verbose set. As for
the QA-warnings file, how does this differ from parsing the files in
PORTLOG_DIR?

Later Days,
-Lares

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