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From: purslow@sympatico.ca
To: Eldad Zack <eldad@gentoo.org>
Cc: Gentoo Devt <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package notices
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:46:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040902164637.GC3690@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094067776.19503.9.camel@localhost>

040901 Eldad Zack wrote:
> I've got an idea to implement package notices,
> as opposed to outputing these important messages to stdout
> The idea is VERY simple: write the message to a file
> -- say, /var/portage/notices/{P} --
> and have a utility to read and delete these messages.

as a mere user, i wd find this definitely helpful.
at present, important warnings etc can get lost in the copious Emerge output.

keep it simple: such msgs sb written to appropriately-named files
in some obvious subdirectory under  /usr/portage ;
leave it to the user to delete them whenever s/he decides;
make it an option in  /etc/make.conf .

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-02 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-01 19:42 [gentoo-dev] Package notices Eldad Zack
2004-09-01 21:05 ` William Hubbs
2004-09-01 22:01   ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2004-09-02 16:46 ` purslow [this message]
2004-09-02 18:06   ` Anton Starikov
2004-09-02 19:59   ` N. Owen Gunden
2004-09-02 18:46 ` Christian Gut
2004-09-02 18:56   ` Alexander Gretencord
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-02 20:12 [Fwd: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package notices] Eldad Zack
2004-09-03  5:10 ` [gentoo-dev] Package notices Nicholas Jones
2004-09-03 14:00   ` Pablo Villalba
2004-09-03 12:47     ` Jason Stubbs
2004-09-03 15:10   ` Eldad Zack
2004-09-03 14:15     ` Jason Stubbs
2004-09-03 16:15       ` Eldad Zack
2004-09-04 12:55   ` Eldad Zack

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