Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
While we're proposing ideas.... what about this: * new scriptlet function "message()", that just outputs text. * add a -Q operation to call the message() function.
Then there's really no need for scriptlet logging at all.
If I upgrade 59 packages and 3 of them spit out messages but I closed my console, what do I do?
Honesty: Don't close the console after an upgrade, you knob. Realism: Ok, so there is a case for logging, sure, but the message function is kinda neat
So here is an idea for pacman contrib that I have had floating around for a while. A script for doing things with the pacman log such as 1) Listing packages installed - good for people the ruin their pacman db which for some unknown reason happens reasonably often and there are scripts on the forums to do this 2) Strips old entries in the log down to essentials. i.e. Just keep the last n days of entries and the latest information on installed packages Allan