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

[Zach Forrest <zach@disinformation.ca>]

You could also have "logmessages" FEATURE (in make.conf) that, if 
enabled, logged the output of einfo, etc.

MooktaKiNG wrote:
> But i usually start an emerge and then do && halt
> 
> This shutsdown gentoo after the emerge.
> 
> Its still the same problem.
> 
> But why can't we have both?
> 
> A readme should not me too hard. The person who makes the actual
> ebuild just types a small README to explain stuff. Thats all.
> 
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> 
>>>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
>>
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