From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 2 09:47:07 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D3116A4CE for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 09:47:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bloodwood.hunterlink.net.au (smtp-local.hunterlink.net.au [203.12.144.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9241143D1D for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 09:47:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from boris@brooknet.com.au) Received: from ppp2692.dyn.pacific.net.au (ppp2692.dyn.pacific.net.au [61.8.38.146])j429kpuI019912; Mon, 2 May 2005 19:46:53 +1000 From: Sam Lawrance To: Gerhard Schmidt In-Reply-To: <20050502062903.GA82621@augusta.de> References: <20050502062903.GA82621@augusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 19:47:18 +1000 Message-Id: <1115027238.1003.7.camel@dirk.no.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg-msgs collect to end of install X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 09:47:08 -0000 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.