I am in agreement with the O/P that too much verbosity has in the past made people, including myself, miss errors raised within maintainer scripts.
Besides his suggestion for a --quiet option, another solution could be to colourize the output on terminals that support it (e.g. red on errors). But I don't know how this could be implemented without modifying every maintainer script (not desirable). -- Kip Warner -- Senior Software Engineer OpenPGP signed/encrypted mail preferred https://www.thevertigo.com
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