Disclaimer: this bug has been filed in a semi-automated manner. When emerging the package x11-apps/xinit-1.3.2, the following elog messages are displayed: * If you use startx to start X instead of a login manager like gdm/kdm, * you can set the XSESSION variable to anything in /etc/X11/Sessions/ or * any executable. When you run startx, it will run this as the login session. * You can set this in a file in /etc/env.d/ for the entire system, * or set it per-user in ~/.bash_profile (or similar for other shells). * Here's an example of setting it for the whole system: * echo XSESSION="Gnome" > /etc/env.d/90xsession * env-update && source /etc/profile Such messages should only be displayed when the package is a new install. These situations can be checked in the ebuild as follows: if ! has_version 'x11-apps/xinit'; then See the tracker bug 440214 for more details.
You can also use readme.gentoo.eclass for this, if you prefer, I can do the work for you
(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #1) > You can also use readme.gentoo.eclass for this, if you prefer, I can do the > work for you +1
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=78925d7a2cdac37e74219558419b862d81e6a9c5 commit 78925d7a2cdac37e74219558419b862d81e6a9c5 Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-03-03 05:44:12 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-03-03 05:45:23 +0000 x11-apps/xinit: Only print postinst messages first time Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/440454 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> x11-apps/xinit/xinit-1.4.0-r1.ebuild | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Unless I'm missing something, the message is not displayed the "first" time xinit is installed, even though that code is still there: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/1799bd53b7a5d2a3e7da6a4b6324eee80fc00171/x11-apps/xinit/xinit-1.4.1.ebuild#L56 Thus seen by: # emerge -av --unmerge xinit * This action can remove important packages! In order to be safer, use * `emerge -pv --depclean <atom>` to check for reverse dependencies before * removing packages. >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: x11-apps/xinit selected: 1.4.1 protected: none omitted: none All selected packages: =x11-apps/xinit-1.4.1 >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Would you like to unmerge these packages? [Yes/No] y >>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting... >>> (Control-C to abort)... >>> Unmerging in: 5 4 3 2 1 >>> Unmerging (1 of 1) x11-apps/xinit-1.4.1... * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. # time emerge -av xinit These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] x11-apps/xinit-1.4.1::gentoo USE="-twm" 0 KiB Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 0 KiB Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-apps/xinit-1.4.1::gentoo >>> Installing (1 of 1) x11-apps/xinit-1.4.1::gentoo >>> Recording x11-apps/xinit in "world" favorites file... >>> Jobs: 1 of 1 complete Load avg: 0.19, 0.10, 0.03 >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. real 0m10.580s user 0m6.784s sys 0m2.364s See also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710294 https://bugs.gentoo.org/440214#c8
