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However, by bitching about problems, there are some users that decide to
check WTF is this warning, in turn they urge devs to fix it (and that is the
main point of QA,
right?), they report it with their bug reports and so on. In other words, the
problem gets _NOTICED_
by everybody.
IMHO, leave it as it is now and don't bother. It is not that much of an output,
compared to the
compile output anyway.
I'd prefer even having it red/bold/whatever for easy spotting.
I agree - hiding QA stuff just makes it be there longer. The more
people notice it, the more likely it is to get fixed, which is the best
way of making it not show up (IMHO anyway).
And for the future, what about
defining something like GENTOO_LEVEL="n00b|user|know_how|master|admin|dev|guru"
in make.conf? And
act acording to this, but trying to move the user up a level or two most of the
time.
I don't think many people would enjoy having a system that made it its
business to tell them what they should know about. Different people
have different learning rates and learn in different ways about
different things. People who want to learn to solve their own problems
will; those who don't aren't likely to want their computer to try to
force them to (although I'll admit that Gentoo doesn't exactly attract
loads of the latter type).
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