Bug 189016

Summary:	emerge should notify about enotices
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP <dhp_gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description DEMAINE Benoît-Pierre, aka DoubleHP 2007-08-15 16:07:59 UTC

At the end of a successfull emerge, emerge notifies about etc files to be updates.

I think this should be followed by 3 colorfull messages informing about notices:
- a green reporting there are messages (if any)
- a yellow to report about warnings (if any)
- a red reporting about important messages (if any)

Too many people have problems that have fixes in enotices; too many people fill forums and IRC with trivial bugs, and too many people forget to read enotices ... and too many roots are not even aware they exist !

I remember my yought when I was frustrated to see those messages fade away in the terminal history, and that it took me weeks before I understand and discover those few tools to get them back.

I think the enotice archive should be a default feature of the distro, and that a successfull emerge should show a colorfull warning about them:
- that there are some to read
- how to read them

as for etc-update ...

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-08-15 16:14:49 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 188623 ***