either printhl, or some new function that could be added to /etc/rc.d/functions, such as a message function. good idea I think. the message function could buffer all output and display it at the end of a pacman -Syu. On 1/6/07, Simo Leone <simo@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 01:21:16PM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
Here are my thoughts on the situation. As every package builder seems to have their own presentation format for displaying messages (e.g. echo ">>>...", echo " **...**"), it would be nice to have a way to unify it. Most (all?) messages are in one of two places- post_install or post_upgrade. I propose these messages should be moved out of these scriptlets, and moved into a variable, likely still located in the install file as this is packaged up with the package (unlike the PKGBUILD). These variables could be called install_msg and upgrade_msg, respectively. The scriptlets would still remain, but any output would be 'nonessential'.
By nonessential, I hope you don't mean thrown out altogether. Some install script output is conditional, because it isn't relevant to everyone that installs the package. I don't see why we should complicate things by adding yet another variable to do what some echo lines used to do either. That said, perhaps some sort of function to standardize the output could be used... I'm thining something along the lines of printhl() from /etc/rc.d/functions .
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