I love it - this is similar to the xorg log output, and i think it makes the portage output much cleaner and easier to read.
El mar., 28 de septiembre de 2021 11:36 a. m., Michał Górny < mgo...@gentoo.org> escribió: > Hi, everyone. > > I know I'm going to regret asking this... but I've prepared a change to > the Portage output format and I think it asks for a wider discussion > than internally in Portage team. > > The primary problem with the current output format is that different > kinds of messages differ only in color. This makes them > indistinguishable without colors and hard to grep. ago's been asking > for a better way to grep for QA warnings and this is pretty much what > motivated me to do this. > > The proposed new format distinguished message types both using colors > and strings. This is roughly inspired by Xorg logs. For example, > instead of: > > * some message > * other message > * hell if i know what this is > > You get: > > [WW] some message > [EE] other message > [QA] hell if i know what this is > > I've also added more colors to explicitly distinguish einfo from elog, > and ewarn from eqawarn. Then, I've replaced most of '>>>' and '!!!' > used by Portage with four-character versions to keep messages aligned. > The 'zings' used for merging files remain three-character, so now it's > easily possible to distinguish messages from installed file list. > > The PR doing this is: https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/759 > > Example screenshot: > > https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/110765/135119090-16e9599d-1b0f-41b8-a965-a55577183ffd.png > > -- > Best regards, > Michał Górny > > > >
