From: Tom Knight <tomk@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:12:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041113171215.GA18275@earwig.bogus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041111234522.40d8f48d@snowdrop.home>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:45:22PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Just a reminder not to do thinks like einfo "********************" in
> ebuilds... It's kinda ugly, and it's one of the few 'decided a loooong
> time ago' stylistic things which is actually covered in the ebuild doc.
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70848 for the tracker bug.
>
[snip]
I've added a few more of these to the tracker bug. I also came accross a few
e{warn,info} messages that had something like this: *** Warning! ***=20
What's the policy on this? Are they OK or should they be considered the same
as a line of stars or hyphens?
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Tom Knight
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-13 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-11 23:45 [gentoo-dev] einfo / ewarn banners and die messages Ciaran McCreesh
2004-11-12 6:02 ` Tuan Van
2004-11-12 7:07 ` Georgi Georgiev
2004-11-12 2:11 ` Mike Gardiner
2004-11-12 11:42 ` Aaron Walker
2004-11-12 15:30 ` Aron Griffis
2004-11-13 6:08 ` Matthew Kenendy
2004-11-12 23:07 ` Mike Gardiner
2004-11-13 11:44 ` Matthew Kenendy
2004-11-13 13:58 ` Aron Griffis
2004-11-13 14:43 ` Georgi Georgiev
2004-11-15 11:57 ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-11-12 11:53 ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2004-11-12 15:22 ` Aron Griffis
2004-11-12 16:38 ` Tuan Van
2004-11-12 8:08 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-11-13 17:12 ` Tom Knight [this message]
2004-11-14 17:12 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-11-14 22:41 ` Aron Griffis
2004-11-14 22:47 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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