On Tuesday 27 December 2005 14:41, Petteri Räty wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 12:54:04AM +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: > >>Currently there are quite a few ebuilds in the tree that execute dodoc > >>or dohtml for files that do not exist. I think it would be nice to have > >>ebuilds die if this is the case. To not break current ebuilds this would > >>only happen with FEATURES="stricter". This is what I currently do in my > >>bashrc. Obviously when integreted to portage one can use helper > >>functions like hasq which are not available in bashrc. > > Well some people opposed this idea so what do everyone think about > making portage output stuff like this to a qa-warnings (or whatever) > file that developers can use? This would have the added benefit that > users would not normally see this stuff and report stuff so easily but > developers would still have easy access to it. Portage could even output > a header to this file saying not to file bug reports unless you know > what you are doing?
if we start "hiding" the output like that then most people will ignore them -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
