RE: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage

[Balaji Srinivasan <BSrinivasan@extremenetworks.com>]

I agree too...having this in etc-update would be good.
Balaji

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Berman [mailto:tberman@gentoo.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 1:03 PM
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage



On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 14:46, John Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 14:16, Balaji Srinivasan wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> I agree; that would be an excellent idea. I would, however, at least
be
> in favor of portage printing something in red at the end of an emerge
> stating that the file had been updated and needed to be looked at;
> better, if it would print the (newly added) contents of the file. Some
> of the messages printed are about crucial things that need to be done,
> often configuration changes; leaving them to be read only if one feels
> like it might leave people thinking that the messages there don't
apply
> to them.
> 
> - John
Just a quick note. I agree completely that portage must somehow output
this information after a massive emerge, or store it somewhere, however,
I question the sanity of yet another small utility. We already have
etc-update, env-update, modules-update and a host of other 'small'
applications. In my experience helping people on #gentoo, one of the
most common problems is the average new gentoo user's lack of awareness
of the existence of these small helper applications.

Integrating this with etc-update or another -update application seems
like a far better idea than just writing another script.

In fact, the idea of replacing all of said applications with ONE
gentoo-update seems like something that should be approached in the near
future. Even if gentoo-update is just a shell script that calls other
shell scripts.

--Todd



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