On 11/14/2011 04:36 AM, Dale wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: >> 1) I estimate that the flooding of the terminal with build output is >> useless for more than 99% of users. Usually, there's too much >> information scrolling by at too high of a rate for it to be >> intelligible. Having this as the default behavior is ridiculous and >> leads to jokes like apt-gentoo [1]. Generally, people who want to >> analyze build output are best served by PORT_LOGDIR. > > One key. Scroll Lock. You can look all you want then hit it again to > let it carry on. There is also ctrl Z as well. I use that a good bit > to see what is going on. Just type in fg to carry on. > > As for progress, genlop -c does that already.
We're not stopping you from using your preferred approach. Just set EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" in /etc/make.conf if it suits you. >> >> 2) With --quiet-build, the user is presented with a useful summary of >> overall progress, along with current load average data. The output is >> consistent regardless of whether or not the emerge --jobs option is used. >> >> [1] http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2011/08/12/careful-what-you-wish-for/ > > Unless you are trying to compile one that failed earlier. Then you > don't want the default, you want to see what made it fail. Then google > is our friend again. With --quiet-build, if a build fails then the *entire* build log is displayed on the terminal. -- Thanks, Zac
