sometimes, an ebuild will display a special message, like "to complete this installation, you will need to run this command". I've also seen (and heard) machines beeping during an ebuild, to attract the attention of the user. A lot of my ebuilds are unattended, and I fail to check my logs for these messages. I think that having these special messages emailed to an administator would be a very useful feature. The email address would be in make.conf or similar. Only important messages would be emailed, for example the one I missed when I emerged mod_php and it failed to work, or the ones that I've heard beeping. Whaddaya think? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
used in debian (email) watch also bug #11359
email might be nice. but at least log these messages somewhere. the unmerge following an update comes so fast i often mias these messages even when i know to look for them, and i dont know how many i've never seen. As these can be important to execute for security or consistency, i don't want to miss these. Perhaps buffer them and spit them out at the end of an emerge session as well. The requests to run revdep-rebuild (from perl updates, and the latest openssh) are ones that i've either re-emerged a package or dived into the ebuild file to retrieve. I'd even be content with increasing the emerge logging level so that every highlighted message got dumped to the emerge.log
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11359 ***
