On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 15:38 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> This is one reason you should not do auto-updates via cron.  It adds to
> the fun in tracking down such problems. 

It wasn't cron. I did the emerge prior to heading off to bed.

Perhaps a good thing would be when the emerge -uDpv world output can be
formatted to include einfo messages, or rather include "ecriticalinfo"
outputs. (Just like IIRC updating portage will make that happen.)

Now, that would be a feature worth having.

> 
> I also wish that emerges would stop whenever a message like this is
> printed to the screen, but people have been cursing/moaning and getting
> caught with dead systems by this bug for literally years - check out the
> bugs for 2002 (einfo has some of them) for instance.  Some are marked
> resolved, but its still broken - unless they never told anyone how to
> enable the fix.

Yeah.. I know.. I wonder if any of the devs here has anything to say on
why the issue still stands?

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