49986 – Portage is not verbose enough

Bug 49986 - Portage is not verbose enough

Summary: Portage is not verbose enough

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2004-05-04 09:23 UTC by John Richard Moser
Modified:	2004-05-04 10:25 UTC (History)
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Description John Richard Moser 2004-05-04 09:23:45 UTC

I'd like multi-level verbosity for portage so that i could get more info about
it.  For example, emerge -pvv could give me a short description of each build,
i.e.

[    U ] media-gfx/gimp-2.0.1 +jpg +png +jbig (875,920k)
 The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Also, why are there not long descriptions of things?  In Debian, you can read
the huge description about the app using the dselect interface.  Why not allow
ebuild creators to supply a product-ge-ver.desc (i.e. gimp-ge-2.0.0.desc) to
specify the long description?  (ge here being >=; g being >, e being =; l
being <; ne being !=; etc)

Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-05-04 10:25:33 UTC

ehm, that's what -s / esearch is for.
Long descriptions can be supplied in metadata.xml.