On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 16:08, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@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
