Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Alex Alexander
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 05:59:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: > Well, it's much easier to gather interest and get feedback if we deploy > the change and ask questions later. What if we tried solving this problem by providing more options instead of trying to guess what the users want? :) Imagine th

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:59, Zac Medico wrote: > Well, it's much easier to gather interest and get feedback if we deploy > the change and ask questions later. I like the new output, but find it kind of annoying that there's very little feedback on how far the progress is within a single job. Pe

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread JD Horelick
On 14 November 2011 03:25, Alex Alexander wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 05:59:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: >> Well, it's much easier to gather interest and get feedback if we deploy >> the change and ask questions later. > > What if we tried solving this problem by providing more options inste

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 11/14/11 09:25, Alex Alexander wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 05:59:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Well, it's much easier to gather interest and get feedback if we deploy the change and ask questions later. What if we tried solving this problem by providing more options instead of trying to g

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Dale
Zac Medico wrote: On 11/13/2011 03:09 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: Zac Medico schrieb: On 11/13/2011 07:49 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote: Please give me a good reason, why i should by default do more things (adding quiet-build=n to the default emerge opts or searching for and opening the build.log) and

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Amadeusz Żołnowski
Excerpts from Dale's message of 2011-11-14 13:17:28 +0100: > Here is some feedback then. I liked it the way it was. When a build > fails, I do a one of install of that package and I like to see the > output. Why, because sometimes it gives me a hint as to why it failed > or something I can googl

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Dale
Zac Medico wrote: On 11/13/2011 08:24 AM, Duncan wrote: The previous defaults made perfect sense to me already. Parallel emerge jobs already puts portage in quiet mode, and that's what most people who care (see my point above about whether this is the right distro choice or not) should already

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Dale
Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: Excerpts from Dale's message of 2011-11-14 13:17:28 +0100: Here is some feedback then. I liked it the way it was. When a build fails, I do a one of install of that package and I like to see the output. Why, because sometimes it gives me a hint as to why it failed or

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Amadeusz Żołnowski
Excerpts from Dale's message of 2011-11-14 13:43:36 +0100: > Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: > > Excerpts from Dale's message of 2011-11-14 13:17:28 +0100: > > > Here is some feedback then. I liked it the way it was. When a > > > build fails, I do a one of install of that package and I like to > > > se

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Dale
Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: Excerpts from Dale's message of 2011-11-14 13:43:36 +0100: Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: Excerpts from Dale's message of 2011-11-14 13:17:28 +0100: Here is some feedback then. I liked it the way it was. When a build fails, I do a one of install of that package and I lik

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/14/2011 05:11 AM, Dale wrote: > Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: >> Excerpts from Dale's message of 2011-11-14 13:43:36 +0100: >>> Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: Excerpts from Dale's message of 2011-11-14 13:17:28 +0100: > Here is some feedback then. I liked it the way it was. When a > bui

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/14/2011 12:25 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 05:59:21PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: >> Well, it's much easier to gather interest and get feedback if we deploy >> the change and ask questions later. > > What if we tried solving this problem by providing more options instead

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/14/2011 12:47 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:59, Zac Medico wrote: >> Well, it's much easier to gather interest and get feedback if we deploy >> the change and ask questions later. > > I like the new output, but find it kind of annoying that there's very > little fe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: conversion of USE=nocxx to USE=cxx

2011-11-14 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 11/13/2011 10:49 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:42:39 -0500 > Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> www-client/google-chrome has RDEPEND=">=sys-devel/gcc-4.4.0[-nocxx]" to >> ensure that we have a recent version of libstdc++. We basically need to >> match Ubuntu LTS since that is what Google

Re: [gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 14 November 2011 04:39:50 Patrick Lauer wrote: > Why do y'all want to make it harder for me to figure out you've already told you how to put it into verbose mode (it's all of one line in your make.conf). you do it once, and then you're done. -mike signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [gentoo-dev] elibtoolize/eautoreconf interactions and lazy eclasses/ebuilds

2011-11-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
http://sources.gentoo.org/eclass/autotools.eclass?r1=1.109&r2=1.110 http://sources.gentoo.org/eclass/libtool.eclass?r1=1.94&r2=1.95 -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] net-tools: relocation in profiles/

2011-11-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 13 November 2011 12:26:25 Mike Frysinger wrote: > i noticed that we have net-tools listed in base/packages. considering this > is a Linux-only tool, this doesn't make sense anymore. so i'll be > relocating it to default/linux/packages. relocated -mike signature.asc Description: This

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/14/2011 04:36 AM, Dale wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: >> 1) I estimate that the flooding of the terminal with build output is >> useless for more than 99% of users. Usually, there's too much >> information scrolling by at too high of a rate for it to be >> intelligible. Having this as the default

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Dale
Zac Medico wrote: On 11/14/2011 04:36 AM, Dale wrote: Zac Medico wrote: 1) I estimate that the flooding of the terminal with build output is useless for more than 99% of users. Usually, there's too much information scrolling by at too high of a rate for it to be intelligible. Having this as the

Re: [gentoo-dev] conversion of USE=nocxx to USE=cxx

2011-11-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 13 November 2011 13:42:43 Mike Frysinger wrote: > now that we have USE=cxx, and base/make.defaults has USE=cxx, i'd like to > migrate gcc away from USE=nocxx. http://sources.gentoo.org/eclass/toolchain.eclass?r1=1.478&r2=1.479 -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/14/2011 09:38 AM, Dale wrote: > As I type: > > emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42% > > So far that's the winner. As I posted earlier, people expect things to > work like they have always worked. I say that as a user. As I've explained in my post to tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/11/11 01:07 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 11/14/2011 09:38 AM, Dale wrote: >> As I type: >> >> emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42% >> >> So far that's the winner. As I posted earlier, people expect things to >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/14/2011 10:14 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > On 14/11/11 01:07 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >> On 11/14/2011 09:38 AM, Dale wrote: >>> As I type: >>> >>> emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42% >>> >>> So far that's the winner. As I posted earlier, people expect thing

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Dale
Zac Medico wrote: On 11/14/2011 09:38 AM, Dale wrote: As I type: emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42% So far that's the winner. As I posted earlier, people expect things to work like they have always worked. I say that as a user. As I've explained in my po

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/14/2011 10:34 AM, Dale wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: >> On 11/14/2011 09:38 AM, Dale wrote: >>> As I type: >>> >>> emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42% >>> >>> So far that's the winner. As I posted earlier, people expect things to >>> work like they have alway

Re: [gentoo-dev] conversion of USE=nocxx to USE=cxx

2011-11-14 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 11/13/2011 11:37 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 13 November 2011 16:42:39 Mike Gilbert wrote: >> If I understand you correctly, you are just going to add a "cxx" use >> flag to gcc for some transitional period? If so, I can simply switch it >> at some point after you add the new flag? >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 14 November 2011 10:34, Dale wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: >> >> On 11/14/2011 09:38 AM, Dale wrote: >>> >>> As I type: >>> >>> emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42% >>> >>> So far that's the winner.  As I posted earlier, people expect things to >>> work like they

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Dale
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On 14 November 2011 10:34, Dale wrote: Zac Medico wrote: On 11/14/2011 09:38 AM, Dale wrote: As I type: emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42% So far that's the winner. As I posted earlier, people expect things to work like they have a

Re: [gentoo-dev] conversion of USE=nocxx to USE=cxx

2011-11-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 14 November 2011 14:00:01 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On 11/13/2011 11:37 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Sunday 13 November 2011 16:42:39 Mike Gilbert wrote: > >> If I understand you correctly, you are just going to add a "cxx" use > >> flag to gcc for some transitional period? If so, I can s

Re: [gentoo-dev] conversion of USE=nocxx to USE=cxx

2011-11-14 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 11/14/2011 3:03 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 14 November 2011 14:00:01 Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On 11/13/2011 11:37 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >>> On Sunday 13 November 2011 16:42:39 Mike Gilbert wrote: If I understand you correctly, you are just going to add a "cxx" use flag to

[gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:55:57 -0800 as excerpted: > Why do we go on living when we know that we will eventually die and that > there will be no trace left of our existence? Life is a journey, and we > are required to surrender all of our souvenirs in the end. Whole religions are

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Alec Warner
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Dale wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: >> >> On 11/14/2011 09:38 AM, Dale wrote: >>> >>> As I type: >>> >>> emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42% >>> >>> So far that's the winner.  As I posted earlier, people expect things to >>> work li

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Zac Medico schrieb: > On 11/14/2011 09:38 AM, Dale wrote: >> As I type: >> >> emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42% >> >> So far that's the winner. As I posted earlier, people expect things to >> work like they have always worked. I say that as a user. > > As I'

[gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Duncan
Zac Medico posted on Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:22:19 -0800 as excerpted: > On 11/14/2011 12:47 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:59, Zac Medico wrote: >>> Well, it's much easier to gather interest and get feedback if we >>> deploy the change and ask questions later. >> >> I like

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-14 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/14/2011 02:52 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: > Zac Medico schrieb: >> On 11/14/2011 09:38 AM, Dale wrote: >>> As I type: >>> >>> emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42% >>> >>> So far that's the winner. As I posted earlier, people expect things to >>>