On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 13:36, Tommi Pirinen wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Saturday 31 January 2004 20:30, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > > > 2-HIDE THE GARBAGE... Do we really need to have ALL the compiler and emerge > > > updated logged to the screen? See PROGRESS BARS above. > > > > > Well, I had some severe problems the last days with X, glibc and others (nptl > > related, big downgrade and recompile time, wohooo plus a mulish X emerge, > > dying again and again). And this 'garbage' becomes realy useful, if you want > > to circumvent (or simply find!) the error that is holding you back for hours. > > > You're just underlining the point here. The garbage only becomes > useful in exceptional situation thus it need not be shown in typical > compilations but might be available elsewhere whenever needed. The > reasoning behind showing much carbage on every compilation is that > only devs and experts would ever compile their own products.
So how did you install Gentoo? > It is obvious that such a mechanism has not been developed with > gentoo-like solution in mind. The compilation system was around long before Gentoo. Since Gentoo is primarily a "from source" distribution then seeing how a package is built is part of the process. If you don't like it, pick another distro, use the GRP packages and don't compile anything yourself or write some code and submit patches. -- Troy Dack http://linux.tkdack.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://webportage.sf.net Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x4D90BE3C Key fingerprint = 1F3D 6C15 16AA 09D5 0C96 92E5 FD89 16F9 4D90 BE3C -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
