From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12707 invoked by uid 1002); 10 Jun 2003 20:14:46 -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 2684 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2003 20:14:46 -0000 Message-ID: <3A96A5B2A1D8AB46B99849DDF1F0BF1E2284F1@sc-msexch-07.extremenetworks.com> From: Balaji Srinivasan To: "'tberman@gentoo.org'" , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 13:15:06 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] A nice idea to improve portage X-Archives-Salt: 768b3310-c9d2-4c64-804c-f4ebced0389c X-Archives-Hash: 4330318801344ee01a71e53962d0c008 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list