Christopher Jones wrote:
> If you want pass a message on to the user, you should not use verbose output
> to do that. Instead just use a regular ‘ui_msg'
Except that this is not what I'm after; `port -v` generates additional output
to
what's printed via `ui_msg`, just like `set -x` shows more
On May 21, 2020, at 10:05, Christopher Jones wrote:
> If you want pass a message on to the user, you should not use verbose output
> to do that. Instead just use a regular ‘ui_msg'
But you usually shouldn't use that either; instead, use `notes`.
> On 21 May 2020, at 9:31 am, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Out of curiosity: is it possible to control verbose mode in a Portfile, like
> with `set +x` / `set -x` in shell scripts?
>
> I'd be interested to use that in the post-activate block of a number of my
Hi,
Out of curiosity: is it possible to control verbose mode in a Portfile, like
with `set +x` / `set -x` in shell scripts?
I'd be interested to use that in the post-activate block of a number of my
ports, as an easy way to give a little more feedback to the user.
Thanks,
R.
