On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 09:22:49AM +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, A Schenck wrote: > > > On 9/28/21 8:36 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > >> [WW] some message > >> [EE] other message > >> [QA] hell if i know what this is > >> > >> I've also added more colors to explicitly distinguish einfo from elog, > >> and ewarn from eqawarn. Then, I've replaced most of '>>>' and '!!!' > >> used by Portage with four-character versions to keep messages aligned. > >> The 'zings' used for merging files remain three-character, so now it's > >> easily possible to distinguish messages from installed file list. > > > Didn't expect to be the only dissenting opinion on something like this > > but. . . Some applications parse portage output looking for these > > 'zings'. At very least app-portage/kuroo does it this way; there must be > > others, right? This is obviously not the ideal way to get information > > out of portage, but it's been stable for the 15 years Kuroo has existed. > > 10-ish years ago dol-sen started some work on building and API for > > portage, but then got sucked into core portage development to the point > > of abandoning their GTK+ portage GUI porthole, which was the original > > impetus for an API, and as far as we know, the API never made it to the > > point it could replace parsing the output. > > If only the length of the >>> and !!! strings is a problem, then why not > leave them alone and go for single-letter tags instead? Like this: > > [.] einfo > [I] elog > [W] ewarn > [E] eerror > [Q] eqawarn > > The only problematic one is [Q] instead of [QA] which is no longer > self-explanatory. Then again, only devs and experienced users should see > eqawarn messages.
fwiw eqawarn is currently displayed for everyone in a similar manner as einfo, just not post-emerge/elog without adding to ELOG classes. If users aren't hiding build logs entirely, they may notice those done at the end (often shown after size report) -- and possibly think it's a problem. Not to say whether [Q] vs [QA] would help with this much so I have no strong opinion here. -- ionen
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