Zac Medico wrote:
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.
Well, I'm off to disable another default being pushed out. I just
wonder if make.conf is going to end up the largest file portage uses one
day. :/ Every time something changes, I go add another setting to
make.conf.
As I type:
emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42%
So far that's the winner. As I posted earlier, people expect things to
work like they have always worked. I say that as a user.
Dale
:-) :-)
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