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

2011-11-15 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le samedi 12 novembre 2011 à 21:49 -0200, Rafael Goncalves Martins a écrit : Then why not you and the other 2 guys that approved this change here (and are the only people I saw approving this, TBH), add --quiet-build=y to your default emerge opts and avoid this kind of change? Regards, I

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

2011-11-15 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 07:19:35AM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: 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

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

2011-11-15 Thread Alex Alexander
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 07:22:19AM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: On 11/14/2011 12:47 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:59, Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org wrote: Well, it's much easier to gather interest and get feedback if we deploy the change and ask questions later. I

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

2011-11-15 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/15/2011 04:27 AM, Alex Alexander wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 07:19:35AM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: 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

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 the

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 zmed...@gentoo.org 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

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

2011-11-14 Thread JD Horelick
On 14 November 2011 03:25, Alex Alexander wi...@gentoo.org 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

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

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)

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 google

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 see the

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

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 build fails, I do a

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 zmed...@gentoo.org 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

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] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-13 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 11/12/11 11:24 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: Most devs will be unhappy as it makes it harder to view the log while building. We can have a different default in the developer profile. Please consider reverting it and let users set it with EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS if they want it less noisy. Why

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

2011-11-13 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/12/2011 11:40 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: devs are not the normal case. it's trivial to have them use --quiet-build=n in their default emerge opts. -mike Or add --quiet-build=n to dev/ profiles. - -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo

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

2011-11-13 Thread Thomas Sachau
Mike Frysinger schrieb: On Saturday 12 November 2011 17:24:08 Patrick Lauer wrote: On 11/11/11 16:44, Zac Medico wrote: good point. we don't want to punish old portage users. let's enable it by default in portage itself then. just add `elog` output to the portage ebuild to inform users of

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

2011-11-13 Thread Amadeusz Żołnowski
Excerpts from Thomas Sachau's message of 2011-11-13 13:39:17 +0100: This can be argued from either side, if the default is verbose, you can make it quiet in the default emerge opts and the other way round. So this is no argument for or against default quiet build in my eyes. Not every user

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

2011-11-13 Thread Thomas Sachau
Amadeusz Żołnowski schrieb: Excerpts from Thomas Sachau's message of 2011-11-13 13:39:17 +0100: This can be argued from either side, if the default is verbose, you can make it quiet in the default emerge opts and the other way round. So this is no argument for or against default quiet build in

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

2011-11-13 Thread Amadeusz Żołnowski
Excerpts from Thomas Sachau's message of 2011-11-13 14:59:57 +0100: How is that an argument for default quiet build? It is exactly the same argument against default quiet build. If someone does not care, he does not care about the output being verbose or not, so no need to change a default for

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

2011-11-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Thomas Sachau to...@gentoo.org wrote: You expect people to manually check the build.log just to see, where it hangs? I prefer checking the console, there i can see it directly and dont have to check for the path of the current build.log and then have to

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

2011-11-13 Thread Thomas Sachau
Amadeusz Żołnowski schrieb: Excerpts from Thomas Sachau's message of 2011-11-13 14:59:57 +0100: How is that an argument for default quiet build? It is exactly the same argument against default quiet build. If someone does not care, he does not care about the output being verbose or not, so no

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

2011-11-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Thomas Sachau to...@gentoo.org wrote: 1. Who defines, what the default should be and when it is acceptable to force an unknown amount of users to change their settings? Well, this did go on a mailing list, and so far we have all of 13 unique participants, so

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

2011-11-13 Thread Matthew Summers
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: this seems like a bit of a tempest in a teapot It cracks me up, this colloquialism. Please don't change this back. /$0.02 In theory, this should make Portage slightly more efficient since it won't be performing the

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

2011-11-13 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 13 November 2011 05:48:40 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 11/12/11 11:24 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: Most devs will be unhappy as it makes it harder to view the log while building. We can have a different default in the developer profile. the original reason for not doing this via

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

2011-11-13 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/13/2011 04:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 13 November 2011 05:48:40 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 11/12/11 11:24 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: Most devs will be unhappy as it makes it harder to view the log while building. We can have

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

2011-11-13 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/13/2011 11:08 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: On 11/13/2011 04:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Sunday 13 November 2011 05:48:40 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 11/12/11 11:24 PM, Patrick Lauer wrote: Most devs will be unhappy as it makes it harder to view the log while building. We can have a

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

2011-11-13 Thread Zac Medico
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 what i or others do get from that. And less lines on the screen is no added

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

2011-11-13 Thread Thomas Sachau
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 what i or others do get from that. And less lines on the

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

2011-11-13 Thread Zac Medico
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 what i or

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

2011-11-13 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Zac Medico schrieb: All I have is the feedback from this mailing list, an my own intuition. My intuition says that --quiet-build is reasonable default that the silent majority of people will welcome. Per discussion on IRC, I propose to make -v turn off quiet-build by default. It can remain

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

2011-11-13 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/13/2011 04:24 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Zac Medico schrieb: All I have is the feedback from this mailing list, an my own intuition. My intuition says that --quiet-build is reasonable default that the silent majority of people will welcome. Per discussion on IRC, I

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

2011-11-13 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/13/2011 04:36 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Zac Medico schrieb: Per discussion on IRC, I propose to make -v turn off quiet-build by default. It can remain enabled by default if -v is not passed to emerge. I think -v controls too many other things to make it override

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

2011-11-13 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Zac Medico schrieb: On 11/13/2011 04:36 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Zac Medico schrieb: Per discussion on IRC, I propose to make -v turn off quiet-build by default. It can remain enabled by default if -v is not passed to emerge. I think -v controls too many other things to make

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

2011-11-13 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/13/2011 04:45 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Zac Medico schrieb: On 11/13/2011 04:36 PM, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: Zac Medico schrieb: Per discussion on IRC, I propose to make -v turn off quiet-build by default. It can remain enabled by default if -v is not passed

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

2011-11-13 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Zac Medico schrieb: To be more explicit: 1) emerge foo: quiet build 2) emerge foo --quiet-build=n: non-quiet build 3) emerge foo -v: non-quiet build 4) emerge foo -v --quiet-build=y: quiet-build So -v sets the default for quiet build, but user can still override with explicit

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

2011-11-13 Thread Thomas Sachau
Zac Medico schrieb: 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)

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

2011-11-13 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
Thomas Sachau schrieb: The numbers of commenting people in here are way too low to say anything, To get more numbers, I created a forum poll as suggested by ferringb. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-901858.html (plain) https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-901858.html (ssl) Best

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

2011-11-13 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/13/2011 05:27 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: Zac Medico schrieb: 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

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

2011-11-12 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 11/11/11 16:44, Zac Medico wrote: good point. we don't want to punish old portage users. let's enable it by default in portage itself then. just add `elog` output to the portage ebuild to inform users of the change ? or do we want a news item ? what's the flag to negate the default ?

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

2011-11-12 Thread Rafael Goncalves Martins
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Patrick Lauer patr...@gentoo.org wrote: On 11/11/11 16:44, Zac Medico wrote: good point.  we don't want to punish old portage users.  let's enable it by default in portage itself then.  just add `elog` output to the portage ebuild to inform users of the

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

2011-11-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 12 November 2011 17:24:08 Patrick Lauer wrote: On 11/11/11 16:44, Zac Medico wrote: good point. we don't want to punish old portage users. let's enable it by default in portage itself then. just add `elog` output to the portage ebuild to inform users of the change ? or do we

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

2011-11-12 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Saturday 12 November 2011 17:24:08 Patrick Lauer wrote: Lots of people in #gentoo are unhappy with it. most changes people will be unhappy with because it's different This is objectively true. That's why you weigh

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

2011-11-12 Thread Rafael Goncalves Martins
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Saturday 12 November 2011 17:24:08 Patrick Lauer wrote: On 11/11/11 16:44, Zac Medico wrote: good point.  we don't want to punish old portage users.  let's enable it by default in portage itself then.  just add

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 12 November 2011 15:40, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org wrote: On Saturday 12 November 2011 17:24:08 Patrick Lauer wrote: On 11/11/11 16:44, Zac Medico wrote: good point.  we don't want to punish old portage users.  let's enable it by default in portage itself then.  just add `elog`

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

2011-11-12 Thread Mike Gilbert
On 11/12/2011 06:49 PM, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: Then why not you and the other 2 guys that approved this change here (and are the only people I saw approving this, TBH), add --quiet-build=y to your default emerge opts and avoid this kind of change? I like the new default. Anyone

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

2011-11-11 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 10 November 2011 22:23:57 Zac Medico wrote: On 11/10/2011 07:17 PM, Zac Medico wrote: On 11/10/2011 06:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 21:11:38 Zac Medico wrote: On 11/10/2011 05:56 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 20:39:11 Mike

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

2011-11-11 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/11/2011 07:11 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 22:23:57 Zac Medico wrote: On 11/10/2011 07:17 PM, Zac Medico wrote: On 11/10/2011 06:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 21:11:38 Zac Medico wrote: On 11/10/2011 05:56 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:

[gentoo-dev] have portage be quiet by default

2011-11-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 10 November 2011 20:39:11 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 19:09:28 Luca Barbato wrote: On 11/5/11 1:58 AM, Kacper Kowalik wrote: I'd like to ask that we enable verbose building by default. I have cmake-utils.eclass in mind, because it's dead easy there, but

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

2011-11-10 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/10/2011 05:56 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 20:39:11 Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 19:09:28 Luca Barbato wrote: On 11/5/11 1:58 AM, Kacper Kowalik wrote: I'd like to ask that we enable verbose building by default. I have cmake-utils.eclass

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

2011-11-10 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 10 November 2011 21:11:38 Zac Medico wrote: On 11/10/2011 05:56 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 20:39:11 Mike Frysinger wrote: if you want quiet portage output, use something like --quiet when running emerge. the verbosity of the build output isn't really

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

2011-11-10 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/10/2011 06:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 21:11:38 Zac Medico wrote: On 11/10/2011 05:56 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 20:39:11 Mike Frysinger wrote: if you want quiet portage output, use something like --quiet when running emerge.

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

2011-11-10 Thread Zac Medico
On 11/10/2011 07:17 PM, Zac Medico wrote: On 11/10/2011 06:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 21:11:38 Zac Medico wrote: On 11/10/2011 05:56 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 10 November 2011 20:39:11 Mike Frysinger wrote: if you want quiet portage output, use