Bug 778860

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: use [INFO], [WARN] and [ERROR] prefixes to ensure that severity of emerge messages is clearly distinguishable
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Zac Medico <zmedico>
Component:	Core - Interface (emerge)	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo, gentoo, greg.kubaryk, mgorny, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472104 https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/759 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=859535 https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/862
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Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2021-03-28 07:11:30 UTC

Since emerge outputs many different kinds of warning messages, it is important to clearly indicate when those messages are non-fatal, in order to ensure that they are distinguishable from fatal errors. Maybe a prefix like [WARN] would be helpful for this.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2021-03-28 07:28:13 UTC

The message from bug 472104 is one that might be displayed with an [INFO] prefix.

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2021-09-29 09:36:06 UTC

My elog PR should be good enough for this.  It's a bit of compromise between verbosity and short output as it uses two-letter codes but this should be good enough to distinguish them.

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2023-10-06 00:17:59 UTC

I'm still interested in this (see mgorny's PR and the version I rebased) but it's fair to say it's not being actively worked on right now, so back to CONFIRMED.

Comment 4 Sam James archtester

2024-04-14 00:21:23 UTC

Heh, apt seems to be adopting this kind of thing: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-2.9-Released.