On 22 December 2012 09:26, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Hello > > After seeing: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440214 > > Looking to a lot of its blockers shows that we are using "elog" messages > for informing people about configuration (like pointing people to > external links to get proper way of configuring things, tell them to add > to some system groups...). I thought that maybe this kind of information > could be simply included in a canonical file under /usr/share/doc/ > package dir called, for example, CONFIGURATION or SETUP. We would them > point people (now with a news item, for the long term provably a note to > handbook to newcomers would be nice) to that file to configure their > setups. The main advantages I see: > - We will flood less summary.log ;) > - The information to configure the package is always present while > package is installed, now, if we remove merge produced logs, people will > need to reemerge the package or read directly the ebuild > > What do you think?
Correct me if I am wrong but are you suggesting we drop the elog messages altogether? I still believe that having the elog messages at the end of an 'emerge -uDN world' is more convenient. Maybe it makes sense to have both, as in print the elog messages and create those CONFIGURATION or SETUP files at the same time. -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
