Bug 1887

Summary:	portage messages to users
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Spider (RETIRED) <spider>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Spider (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-04-17 17:51:49 UTC

after a IRC discussion it was concluded. we need a better way to message users.

<g2boojum> We desperately need to change how portage handles messages to the user.
<Spidler> indeed
<Spidler> Mail to root?
<Spidler> add to /root/MESSAGES ?
<g2boojum> Spidler: No, I think we just need to log it _and_ save all of the
messages to be printed at the end of an emerge (so "emerge foo bar baz" doesn't
print out the user messages until everything is built).
<Spidler> g2boojum: also need to print them out -after- the clean removal of
older versions


Well, those are some ideas.  I'm still for the idea of storing the messages
somewhere, preferrably tagged with a note on what package it is.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-04-21 17:06:14 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 462 ***