Bug 254427

Summary:	app-portage/gentoolkit elog -> einfo
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Todd Walton <todd>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	fturco
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	268001
Attachments:	gentoolkit-0.2.4.2-r1.ebuild_einfo.patch

Description Todd Walton 2009-01-10 15:01:11 UTC

app-portage/gentoolkit uses elog to say:

"Another alternative to equery is app-portage/portage-utils"
"For further information on gentoolkit, please read the gentoolkit"
"guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoolkit.xml"

I propose einfo be used for this.  This isn't information necessary to the running of this software.  I don't strictly *need* to know this information.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 michael@smith-li.com 2009-01-24 01:28:23 UTC

Created attachment 179493 [details, diff]
gentoolkit-0.2.4.2-r1.ebuild_einfo.patch

Comment 2 Francesco Turco 2012-12-23 10:27:43 UTC

I don't agree with using einfo instead of elog. einfo seems to be used for debug purposes, and when you enable it system-wide in the PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES variable in make.conf you end up with a very low signal-to-noise ratio. elog instead seems to be used only for messages users should read. It doesn't matter if it's not something very important (there's ewarn for that).

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-12-23 22:12:22 UTC

This looks like one of those messages that should only be shown if there's not a previous installed version (see bug #440214).