On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 15:49:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Running without -v doesn't help. I almost never use -v with emerge, > > it's output is verbose enough as it is and burying useful messages in > > even more trivial, not-for-users output makes decoding it even harder. > > > > emerge really needs an option to hide such "informational" > > messages. > > I disagree. emerge really needs to have it's output redesigned from > scratch. Right now it arrives at the conclusion (the top) and dumps it's > data tree bottom-up, apparently stopping halfway and never getting to > output what the top is.
Well ,yes. But it also needs an option to hide QA and trivial info messages. Having the same message pop up every time I run emerge, because of a package I know I masked is annoying enough, but the confusion it causes to many users is far more annoying. Yes, I agree it needs a full overhaul of the way it communicates what is happening. -- Neil Bothwick A Smith & Wesson beats Four Aces everytime.
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