Re: [gentoo-dev] Package notices

[Anton Starikov <antst@ifm.liu.se>]

At least they can be collected in some buffer and dumped to the output 
stream after process of emerging. It can be realy helpfull, when you 
emerge more than one package at time.

purslow@sympatico.ca wrote:
> 040901 Eldad Zack wrote:
> 
>>I've got an idea to implement package notices,
>>as opposed to outputing these important messages to stdout
>>The idea is VERY simple: write the message to a file
>>-- say, /var/portage/notices/{P} --
>>and have a utility to read and delete these messages.
> 
> 
> as a mere user, i wd find this definitely helpful.
> at present, important warnings etc can get lost in the copious Emerge output.
> 
> keep it simple: such msgs sb written to appropriately-named files
> in some obvious subdirectory under  /usr/portage ;
> leave it to the user to delete them whenever s/he decides;
> make it an option in  /etc/make.conf .
> 


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