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Bug 44107 - repoman success message is not clear, not professional enough
Summary: repoman success message is not clear, not professional enough
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Development (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2004-03-09 02:23 UTC by dams (RETIRED)
Modified: 2004-10-11 14:17 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description dams (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-09 02:23:22 UTC
RepoMan sez: "If everyone were like you, I'd be out of business!"

I needed some time to figure out that this was a success message. It uses bad english, bad syntax, it's not clear.

repoman should try to be usefull and understandable at any point, especially on status messages. gentoo is not a small amount of geeks now, such message doesn't fit with the community imho

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.repoman
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
RepoMan sez: "If everyone were like you, I'd be out of business!"


Expected Results:  
RepoMan status : "there is no error/warning I could verify. Your ebuild(...) is
clean"
Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-09 05:23:29 UTC
shouldn't this be a blocker ?
Comment 2 James Slater 2004-03-09 06:46:17 UTC
I think it injects a small amount of humour into what's usually a very boring process - please leave it in.

Having said that I see no reason why there couldn't be a more sensible message at the same time.
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-03-10 18:14:19 UTC
agreed, leaving the messages as they are is fine with me ... james summed it up nicely
Comment 4 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-11 23:51:23 UTC
I also agree with James.  The entire repoman experience is something right
out of The Sopranos and has been that way for a long time.  To change it now
would take away a bit of Gentoo culture.
Comment 5 dams (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-12 01:27:51 UTC
well I don't see why it has to inject an amount of humour. But actually I don't
really care. I'd be happy if an easier message could be added. For non english
speaking people, such message is difficult to understand

PS : what's a blocker?
Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-03-12 13:52:37 UTC
martin was refering to Severity and i think he'd be wrong in considering this a 'blocker' bug
Comment 7 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-06-09 20:40:36 UTC
Maybe we should change the colors of "RepoMan sez:" to yellow/red on warnings/errors ...
Comment 8 dams (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-10-11 14:17:29 UTC
It seems this bug is not a bug, and there is no necessity to change the message of repoman. The dialec is part of the fun, and devs are not everyone, they are warned about repoman, and they know it.

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