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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 'Completed (m of n)' messages
From:       Wol <antlists () youngman ! org ! uk>
Date:       2023-04-13 22:38:07
Message-ID: 16997253-03c6-d1f5-e660-a0e37519dc91 () youngman ! org ! uk
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On 11/04/2023 15:24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 11:59:08 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 
>> What does the panel think of these new status messages from portage
>> (~amd64)? At first I thought "that's useful", but after a while I
>> concluded that it just adds to the clutter on the screen and actually
>> impedes my ability to follow progress.
> 
> I like it. Previously, I had to wait for the completed counter to
> increment before knowing that installation of a package was complete.
> It's handy if you need to interrupt an emerge session and don't want to
> do it just before Chromium has finished installing :-O
> 
>> Perhaps I'm just being a Grumpy Old Man (tm).
> 
> See above, some Grumpy Old Men like it ;-)
> 
I've just configured konsole to display the current command in the sense 
of it displays "emerging x of y package-name" or similar. So that 
provides me a nice progress counter, and I only look at the contents of 
the console if that's not enough.

Cheers,
Wol

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