Bug 310337

Summary:	sys-apps/portage - could FEATURES="unmerge-logs" be named somewhat more intuitively please?
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Doktor Notor <notordoktor>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Doktor Notor 2010-03-20 09:34:57 UTC

unmerge-logs
*Keep* logs from successful unmerge phases. This is relevant only when PORT_LOGDIR is set.

Well, it's in make.globals, didn't change it, ended up with with lots of essentially useless logs in PORT_LOGDIR. I assumed it does the exact oposite of what the manpage suggests, i.e., the logs to be unmerged :P

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-03-20 12:34:03 UTC

What should we call it? keep-unmerge-logs? That's a bit long, no? Can't we expect people to read the man page?

Comment 2 Doktor Notor 2010-03-20 13:36:25 UTC

When everything else fails, read the manpage... or, was it take a bigger hammer? :) It'd be at least consistent with keeptemp, keepwork... whatever. Makes me think whether this functionality makes a sense as a feature at all, kinda can't find a good use case for this.