Re: hide more output

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 16:08, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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?

+2


> 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.

I am using *shell* from Emacs with 'guix-prettify-mode' enabled.
Maybe it could be extended to 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org/...-<package>'.


All the best,
simon