From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6845 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Jun 2003 20:53:36 -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 13159 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2003 20:53:36 -0000 Message-ID: <1206.10.0.0.1.1055282167.squirrel@mooktaking.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <1055268327.5107.578.camel@isengard.aravir.net> References: <3EE5EA76.7090805@komcept.com> <34221.10.0.0.1.1055259612.squirrel@mooktaking.homeip.net> <1055268327.5107.578.camel@isengard.aravir.net> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:56:07 +0100 (BST) From: "MooktaKiNG" To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: Mooktakim@hotmail.com User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage X-Archives-Salt: 4a7fdc35-3e79-443a-9953-6790c74913d8 X-Archives-Hash: f70768a1428fcc92c115db9720078357 But i usually start an emerge and then do && halt This shutsdown gentoo after the emerge. Its still the same problem. But why can't we have both? A readme should not me too hard. The person who makes the actual ebuild just types a small README to explain stuff. Thats all. >> 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 > > -- > > Love justice; desire mercy. > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > ------------------------------------------------- Please wait while you are redirected to my signature...... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list