From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7720 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Jun 2003 18:15:54 -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 3443 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2003 18:15:54 -0000 Message-ID: <3A96A5B2A1D8AB46B99849DDF1F0BF1E2284EA@sc-msexch-07.extremenetworks.com> From: Balaji Srinivasan To: "'strider@aravir.net'" , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 11:16:18 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage X-Archives-Salt: d1b8e680-8aa4-4080-b3d8-5bede0e64989 X-Archives-Hash: 8072df2d5b557568658c51236239647b A better idea would be if portage wrote those messages to a file and we could view it when we wanted. ie. We could have a showEbuildMessages or some such program that showed all those messages and allowed you to ack each one. I think this would be pretty useful as normally when i am fixing things i dont have time to fix all of it in one shot... Balaji -----Original Message----- From: John Robinson [mailto:strider@aravir.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 11:05 AM To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage > I know i know. there are some text at the end of the emerge that > says what you should do. > > But when your doind multiple emerge's one after the other and you > leave gentoo todo its thing. You don't see the text. > > So if there was a nice README file that explain the 'extra' setting > needed on each dir in portage then it would make things a LOT easier > and would be very helpful. Honestly, I think I'd much prefer if portage just queued all of those messages and displayed them at the end of the emerge. If that information was in a README, you'd have to go, find, and read the README for every package and dependency that you install. That's a lot of work. Since portage is supposed to be non-interactive, it shouldn't assume that you're gonna stick around watching the terminal while it does its thing. ;) - John -- Love justice; desire mercy. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list