From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26240 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2004 19:59:18 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 2 Sep 2004 19:59:18 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1C2xjq-0006t8-Gv for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 02 Sep 2004 19:59:18 +0000 Received: (qmail 4081 invoked by uid 89); 2 Sep 2004 19:59:18 +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 32516 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2004 19:59:17 +0000 From: "N. Owen Gunden" Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 15:59:17 -0400 To: Eldad Zack , Gentoo Devt Message-ID: <20040902195917.GA29746@phauna.org> Mail-Followup-To: Eldad Zack , Gentoo Devt References: <1094067776.19503.9.camel@localhost> <20040902164637.GC3690@sympatico.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040902164637.GC3690@sympatico.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package notices X-Archives-Salt: 188c670e-3a79-430d-99fe-76a1037c8ce9 X-Archives-Hash: 7ca2a8ddb1dcaaf91d6806e124bccbad On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 12:46:37PM -0400, purslow@sympatico.ca wrote: > as a mere user, i wd find this definitely helpful. > at present, important warnings etc can get lost in the copious Emerge output. I concur. In fact, I was the one who first hacked (emphasis on hack :) together a functions.sh patch to email warnings to root. > keep it simple: such msgs sb written to appropriately-named files > in some obvious subdirectory under /usr/portage ; Don't want to put it in /usr/portage, else it'll get syncd away! Somewhere in /var sounds good to me. - O -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list