160201 Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 09:03:50 +0000 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Feb 2016 05:56:37 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>>> Switching to nvidia OpenCL interface... done
>>>  * x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers is using the deprecated
>>> readme.gentoo.eclass.    <<<????>>>
>>>  * Please use readme.gentoo-r1 instead.
>>> What does the marked line implies? This is an outdated readme?
>> It's a QA message stating that the ebuild should be updated
>> to use a newer eclass. The readme.gentoo eclass is used
>> to generate messages specific to installing the package on Gentoo.
>> IMO ebuild QA messages like this should not be shown to users.
> The idea is that users should ping developers
> with appropriate bug reports.

However are users supposed to know that ?
How would they know whether such a bug report really was "appropriate" ?

Really, Portage output needs a serious re-think (smile).

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