Bug 18079 – portage feature: deferred information output (lazyinfo)

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Stanislav Karchebny 2003-03-24 01:59:27 UTC]

I propose that a feature is added to portage that all information that is
usually output after package has been emerged, should be emitted after all
packages in a emerge list have been emerged.
e.g. when i say 'emerge kde' it will pull out a list of kdenetwork, kdelibs et
cetera. sometimes it prints crucial information after one or another package is
merged, but since the install is mostly unattended those are gone unnoticed.
what portage should do is defer output of post-install information until all
packages in a list are emerged and then output them in a bunch like

Package: kdelibs
 * WARNING: this or that

Package: kdenetwork
 * NOTICE: that or something else

etc...

This way it'll be easier to track what has changed dramatically and what to
watch out for.

Reproducible: Didn't try
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[Comment 1 Stanislav Karchebny 2003-03-24 02:03:09 UTC]

Well, probably /var/log/emerge.log should do.
But for the sake of clarity and n00bs out there...

At least print "See /var/log/emerge.log" after long-long-long emerges.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2003-07-30 16:08:23 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11359 ***