On Thu, 2021-09-30 at 08:40 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote: > Hi, > > Would it be possible to have some switch (e.g. --style=legacy) that > controls this new vs. the old behaviour? Would perhaps allow > applications that parse the output to work via setting this in the > global opts.
Patches welcome. It shouldn't be hard, my commit shows which files need to be edited to alter the prefixes and how to pass them into ebd. > > In addition, much like the colour map, how do you see this change in > light of eclasses, init-scripts, etc. that also use the same scheme as > Portage at the moment? Would you expect to change those too at some > point? Eclasses are supposed to use standard einfo, elog... functions, so they should just work™. If someone's reinventing the wheel, it's not my problem. Init scripts aren't supposed to be used inside the PM, so that's out of scope. > Final question, am I understanding correctly that normal lines are not > prefixed with something? Would it be, for consistency, alignment, and > certainty of selecting rows something to use a prefix for those lines > too (assuming they aren't at this point)? I don't know, we've never done that. I suppose it would be possible but it is even more controversial and unlike the proposed changes, it would actually require mangling the process output. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
