[pacman-dev] idea: PM_LOG_ERROR to stderr? (was: [PATCH 1/3] Give sensible feedback when a repo has no configured servers)

[Nagy Gabor]

> > IMHO we should print all error messages to stderr. (This can be
> > done easily in callback functions.) I am sure that it would be
> > better with -Sp (-Sp users usually do pacman -Sup > foo.txt), and I
> > don't see any drawbacks in other cases. (What about our scripts?)
> > See also: FS#12101.
> >
> > Opinions?
> 
> Yeah, I think we should probably get in this habit as well.
> 
> However, do we do more than just error messages? For example, the
> above would capture the "resolving dependencies..." text on stdout, so
> your first line of your text file would be bum.
 
I don't know. I think we should follow the "GNU traditions", that I
don't know too much about. ;-) (But I know that errors are usually
printed to stderr.) I am a hardcore -Sp user and I can live with that
one "resolving dependencies..." message (and that issue can be fixed in
other ways) ;-) But if these kind of "progress messages" are usually
printed to stderr, I am fine with moving those to stderr as well.