Hello! Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> skribis:
> when installing / building / reconfiguring a system, Guix spawns a few > tools that produce output that might be confusing or misleading. One > example is the output of the GRUB installation, which says things like > “Installation finished. No error reported.” or that it’s installing > something for a 386 system. > > I think we should hide (redirect to a log file) or at least prefix > messages that are produced by tools that Guix spawns. We could then > deliberately print messages that indicate the “phases” of installing the > system, such as “Installing GRUB…”, “Creating user accounts…”, etc. Prefixing sounds like a good idea; hiding might end up hiding too much, so I’m more wary about that. If we do prefixing, probably we just need a variant of ‘invoke’ that runs the program in a pipe, reads its output, and prints the prefixed lines. Thoughts? Ludo’.
