Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 19:47:18 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance <boris@brooknet.com.au> To: Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@augusta.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg-msgs collect to end of install Message-ID: <1115027238.1003.7.camel@dirk.no.domain> In-Reply-To: <20050502062903.GA82621@augusta.de> References: <20050502062903.GA82621@augusta.de>
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On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 08:29 +0200, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I've done a lot of updating and installing of ports lately. I have seen > plenty of pkg-messages scroll up the screen unable to read them because > the port which printed them where installed as a dependency. > > It might by a good idea to collect all the messages displayed by depenancy > ports an display them at the end. I thought about this briefly a couple days ago. I had an idea that it might be useful if things like pkg-message could be optionally emailed to a chosen user. Especially handy for ports that require attention post-installation, and describe this in their pkg-message.
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