Re: [gentoo-dev] Putting qa warnings to a text file instead of showing them to the world

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 27 December 2005 14:41, Petteri Räty wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 12:54:04AM +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
> >>Currently there are quite a few ebuilds in the tree that execute dodoc
> >>or dohtml for files that do not exist. I think it would be nice to have
> >>ebuilds die if this is the case. To not break current ebuilds this would
> >>only happen with FEATURES="stricter". This is what I currently do in my
> >>bashrc. Obviously when integreted to portage one can use helper
> >>functions like hasq which are not available in bashrc.
>
> Well some people opposed this idea so what do everyone think about
> making portage output stuff like this to a qa-warnings (or whatever)
> file that developers can use? This would have the added benefit that
> users would not normally see this stuff and report stuff so easily but
> developers would still have easy access to it. Portage could even output
> a header to this file saying not to file bug reports unless you know
> what you are doing?

if we start "hiding" the output like that then most people will ignore them
-mike

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