begin quoting David Brown as of Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:56:45AM -0700: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:49:42AM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote: > > >But to remind everyone, cdparanoia was the original subject in this > >thread, and cdparanoia is CLI ... a CLI program that defaults to putting > >out smiley faces to stderr on success. > > As do an increasing number of CLI programs. The studies and human factors > that cause people to need progress have nothing to do with CLI vs GUI, it's > because the users are human. > > You're in the minority, even among CLI users, for wanting slience.
Perhaps Lan's a slan. > But, cdparanoia does exactly what we're saying it should, it has a --quiet > option for scripting, but prints out progress in the default case. Presumably it should be fairly simple to recompile cdparanoia so that it uses --quiet as a default. I seem to recall (which means I can't be bothered to go look up any) programs that offer both --verbose and --quiet options (and other types of opposing options) where one of 'em is on by default, but both options are defined. Presumably, this is so the system owner can define their preferred behavior, but anyone DEPENDING on certain behavior one way or the other can specify it in their scripts, and it'll work either way. -- I wish, way back when, that + had been used to enable options, and - disable. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
