From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: hide more output
Date: Wed, 06 May 2020 16:08:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877dxpkvfl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878si541zo.fsf@elephly.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 06 May 2020 15:38:51 +0200")
Ricardo Wurmus writes:
> when installing a few packages we see output like this:
>
> $ guix install zile-on-guile vim-full
> The following packages will be installed:
> zile-on-guile 2.4.14-0.fd09781
> vim-full 8.2.0411
>
> 9.4 MB will be downloaded:
> /gnu/store/vf7w4yiax38ra7x8aqqvbnc38c0ldgpm-zile-on-guile-2.4.14-0.fd09781
> /gnu/store/dnj9wljcck9vdwgp7dwxk00qnnk1g3c5-vim-full-8.2.0411
> downloading from https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/dnj9wljcck9vdwgp7dwxk00qnnk1g3c5-vim-full-8.2.0411...
[..]
> While I’m sure many of us have gotten used to this I think we don’t need
> to show quite as much information. My proposal is to hide the
> “downloading from <really long URL>” by default, because the URLs don’t
> really matter to users. We can unhide that bit of info when slightly
> higher verbosity is requested.
>
> What do you think?
+1
I've been using --verbosity=1 a lot, lately; I'm all for having another,
more quiet but not silent level and bumping the defaults.
Greetings,
janneke
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-06 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-06 13:38 hide more output Ricardo Wurmus
2020-05-06 14:08 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen [this message]
2020-05-06 14:26 ` zimoun
2020-05-06 14:25 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-06 14:28 ` zimoun
2020-05-06 20:00 ` Bengt Richter
2020-05-06 23:25 ` zimoun
2020-05-06 14:55 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-17 22:02 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-18 8:47 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-05-18 9:10 ` Jelle Licht
2020-05-18 13:10 ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2020-05-18 13:13 ` Nicolò Balzarotti
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