Re: --silent should work for install too

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 15 May 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > echo " $(includeHEADERS_INSTALL) '$$d$$p' '$(DESTDIR)$(includedir)/$$f'"; \
>
> They are still noisy with current git Automake, even with silent-rules
> mode enabled.  However, we have improved installation to install several
> files at once, so there will be fewer commands output (with albeit
> longer lines though).
>
> At this time, I don't think silent-rules should impact installation and
> uninstallation output.  I have no good reason for this choice.  However,

There are extremely good reasons to always be verbose about installed 
files.  It is only necessary to show what was done, and not 
necessarily how it was accomplished.  The user should be aware of how 
his system was updated in case there is an error, files were written 
to the wrong places, and he needs to search for the backup tapes to 
recover overwritten parts of the operating system.

It could be argued that the user could have done 'make -n' in advance 
but often the output of 'make -n' is almost undeciperable and full of 
lists of script fragments which may be executed with unknown effect.

Bob
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