On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 12:30, Jerry McBride wrote: > 2-HIDE THE GARBAGE... Do we really need to have ALL the compiler and emerge > updated logged to the screen? See PROGRESS BARS above.
There's often useful info in all that. I kind of think of it as a real big vertical progress bar :-) And to do a progress bar properly, you need to know how much stuff it going to go on. That will vary with different software versions and different USE flags. It'd be a mess to figure out -- could be done, but I'd rather have people spend their time getting HTML email out of my email client. > 3-STARTUP SCRIPTS... Yup, Gentoo is beautiful. I use it all the time, on maybe > a dozen computers of various architecture and brand. But I really have issue > with the manner of organizing the system startup scripts. Could we please, > use something more granular, more static? Like the good, old fashion SystemV > stuff that they used in Caldera Open Linux? KDE ships with a SysV editor that > would be a PERFECT match for something like this. I'm so tired of booting the > laptops at work and wating for the "CACHING" to complete... If nothing else > is done, please see PROGRESS BARS above. It *is* a little odd, but would probably be a real mess for users to change over all the old installed systems. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
