Not really - why do we have to put ${RUN} before every command in package Makefiles now?
FYI - the ${_PKG_SILENT}${_PKG_DEBUG} sequence was introduced to debug the infrastructure, and it's fairly good, if verbose, at doing that
Frankly, if one has trouble seeing what's going on with digest's Makefile shell commands, then there are going to be lots of harder challenges in the next few days and weeks
Even if that were not the case, the digest package is the one that deserves the least cosmetic churn, since everything else uses it
And, finally, even if all the rest were true, now is not a good time to do it
Regards,
Alistair