[pacman-dev] Suggestion for a QUIET arg to makepkg

[Xavier]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Mark Constable <markc at renta.net> wrote:
> When it comes to using makepkg from a wrapper script, to
>  build a series of packages, it would be good if there was
>  an option to send logging to a file and not to STDOUT at the
>  same time. This is just a suggestion and an example of one
>  place where I need to patch my local makepkg.
>
>  Perhaps this could be generalised via a VERBOSE arg instead
>  where, for instance, VERBOSE=9 could be noisier than VERBOSE=1
>  (rather than just an on/off toggle).
>

Can't you simply do : makepkg -L &> /dev/null ?

But I feel like I am probably missing something :)