Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE message

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

On 8/13/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> On Monday 14 August 2006 04:39, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> >
> > This was not the first time.  It wasn't the last either -- I'm looking at a
> > new fresh crop.  Am I then to understand that none of these messages will
> > ever be warning ME that I need to do something (actually, I know that's not
> > true).
> >
> > If not, how am I to tell?  What clues are you guys going on?  Is it just
> > beyond some threshold of geekishness/incomprehensibility that marks it as
> > for devs only?
> >
>
> the threashold is, that this is a warning about a function used in ebuilds to
> use a certain eclass, which is even more ebuild stuff. And correcting ebuilds
> is dev stuff.
>
> No need for geekiness threshold - if it is about ebuilds and eclasses, it is
> for devs. Heck, every problem/warning about an ebuild is for devs.
>
>
> If there is a message for the user, it is usually very easy to recognize.
> Stuff like: 'after updating package FOO to version X.Y.Z-r3 you need to
> rebuilt package BAR' is obviously for you, the user.

I'm not reassured.  I don't think messages among devs should share a
channel with messages to users without some explicit tagging.  The stuff
you say is for devs looks worrisome to me because I don't really understand
it.  I'd like something more clear.
++ kevin


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