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From: "Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pet peeve: sending normal output to stderr (env-update)
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On 11/16/06, David Talkington <dtalk@prairienet.org> wrote:
> Well and good, but this is not an abnormal message, and there's no
> reason for it to go to stderr.  stderr is for errors, else it's just
> unbuffered stdout, which isn't terribly helpful.

Actually lots of programs use stderr for more than just "abnormal"
output.  It is common practice in programs that generate a lot of
output to send the "verbose" messages to stdout and the status
messages to stderr.

But also, you might be interested in this:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-511285.html

I actually like this idea so much, I may try my hand at hacking
portage this weekend to make a proof-of-concept!

-Richard
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