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From: Joshua Pierre <joshua@swool.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New ideas, USE database, sandbox & more
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 22:01:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011203220147.D13834@swool.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1007379134.13527.5.camel@uranus.u235.eyep.net>

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 01:32:13PM +0200 or thereabouts, Vitaly Kushneriuk wrote:
> 2)Long descriptions should be added.

Yes this will help, I believe Debian uses somethingalong the lines.

> 3)emerge should search for package in category dirs. So that
>   "emerge gcc" as "emerge sys-devel/gcc" 

This would be really cool, I imagine it would be hard to add to portage. (Comments drobbins?)

> 5)Compile and install logs should be stored for future inspection.
>   Should be realy simple to implement. Just redirect sub shell to 
>   "| tee <logfilename>. Or even "> logfilename" if emerge called with
>   --silent flag.

Again, this would be really good for backtracking failed builds.

Some really good ideas here but I am not sure it will all fit in with portage.

Cheers,

-- 
Joshua Pierre
Developer & Release Technician
Themes.Org -- Open Source Interface Enhancement


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-03 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-03  1:06 [gentoo-dev] USE database? Zach Forrest
2001-12-03  7:41 ` AW: " Sebastian Werner
2001-12-03  9:13   ` Geert Bevin
2001-12-03 10:02     ` AW: " Sebastian Werner
2001-12-03 10:12       ` Geert Bevin
2001-12-03 11:05         ` AW: " Sebastian Werner
2001-12-03 11:05           ` Geert Bevin
2001-12-03 11:26             ` AW: " Sebastian Werner
2001-12-03 11:32   ` [gentoo-dev] New ideas, USE database, sandbox & more Vitaly Kushneriuk
2001-12-03 11:48     ` Geert Bevin
2001-12-03 12:55       ` Vitaly Kushneriuk
2001-12-03 14:01     ` Joshua Pierre [this message]
2001-12-03 16:06       ` Vitaly Kushneriuk
2001-12-03 16:28       ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-03 18:00         ` Vitaly Kushneriuk
2001-12-03 16:48 ` [gentoo-dev] USE database? Daniel Robbins
2001-12-06  6:01   ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-06 18:12     ` Zach Forrest
2001-12-06 20:38       ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-06 22:33         ` Zach Forrest
2001-12-06 23:40           ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-06 23:52             ` Zach Forrest
2001-12-07 19:28           ` Sebastian Werner
2001-12-07 21:39             ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-07 21:43               ` Geert Bevin
2001-12-08  1:44               ` Mikael Hallendal

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