Notes...that flash by and are gone...(was Re: any good audio/video editing apps in macports?)

[Jan Stary]

On Feb 26 23:22:46, hans at stare.cz wrote:
> On Feb 26 16:56:23, jeremy at lavergne.gotdns.org wrote:
> > > Surely the install process does some maintenance at its exit
> > > (read: catches signals), and can spit out those messages even
> > > if it is exiting due to being interrupted (as opposed to
> > > finishing without error).
> > 
> > If MacPorts is quitting because the user is closing the window
> > mid-process or the computer is rebooting, what difference will
> > any messages make?
> 
> What? Whay would the user be closing a window where an installation
> he started is running?

And even if he wanted to kill the ongoing installation,
why would he close the window, as opposed to simply
killing the process in that (terminal) window?
To lose any possibility of looking at the output?

Even if you kills the installation,
you still want to see the install messages
of everything that got istalled so far.