On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
There is a separate concern I have wanted to address for a while, and that is the mixing of what was previously a pristine pacman.log with the scriptlet messages. It is a great idea, but in practice, it makes this file not near as concise as it once was. In an ideal world: 1) pacman.log would return to only being upgrade/install/remove messages. 2) another log file would be added that contained the verbose stuff. pacman_messages.log or something. 3) pacman.log never rotates/deletes. 4) pacman_messages.log rotates/deletes.
What do people think of this?
Hmm, first I didn't see any drawbacks by splitting logs, but I just thought of one now. Putting all verbose messages separately in pacman_messages.log put them out of context. With the current all-in-one log file, you can associate very easily and quickly any verbose messages / scriptlets output with the corresponding upgrade/install/remove.