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Re: hide more output
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zimoun |
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Re: hide more output |
Date: |
Wed, 6 May 2020 16:26:55 +0200 |
On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 16:08, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> 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