On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:54:51PM +0100, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 01:51:25 +0000 > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The attached GLEP is a draft proposal for the emerge --news thing that's > > been under discussion. There are still some TODO items. These are calls > > for people to weigh in with suggestions. Of course, suggestions on other > > items are good too... > > Before this, make pre-install and post-install emerge messages more usable, > instead of having them lost among thousands of gibberish text in batch > emerges. >
I always ask myself what's wrong with doing a simple "if" statement before displaying infos, warnings or errors which don't affect the current installaion. No one complained when i started doing that ages ago in bash-completion. I don't mean huge and resource hungry tests. But why tell the user that he should remove a file in /etc with einfo when it doesn't even exist? (That's just an example) Some ebuilds do this now, but most still broadcast (sometimes huge) text floods. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
