On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:27 AM, M. J. Everitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > I do, but only usually if its the last package of an emerge because > otherwise its lost many many thousands of lines upwards. Thank goodness > for portage's savelog feature. - Actually that reminds me .. someone > mentioned a useful tweak to that, with an appropriate FEATURES switch, > it would categorise the output of the logging system .. must look that > one up again, or poke the wiki team ....... >
IMO, emailing elogs to root should probably be the default. By all means let people turn it off, but I bet a lot of people don't realize it is an option. This goes in all my make.conf files: PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save mail" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="[email protected] smtp.server.address" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="package \${PACKAGE} merged on \${HOST} with notice" Yes, some packages are a bit spammy and this should be fixed, but in general it has prevented more headaches than it has caused. -- Rich
