On Saturday 31 January 2004 03:18 pm, Glenn English wrote:
> 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 :-)
>
Then you go read the log files if there was a problem... Wooo... big problem.
How about a nice progress bar that get's interrupted with printed text
showing ERRORS... Hmmm... That would work too...
> 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.
>
It doesn't have to be perfect or exact... The people generating ebuilds could
simply add a comment containing somewhere containing; compile time per
architecture, resultant build size, etc and portage could use that
information to guess-a-mate how to display/update the progress bar... It'd be
good enough for me. Whay better than spending tons of processor time updating
a console with meaningless text...
> > 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.
True. But then the world is full of surprises and bad choices. You pick your
poision and drink to your fill. :')
Cheers.
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