Hi Guix, when installing a few packages we see output like this:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ 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... vim-full-8.2.0411 8.9MiB 7.6MiB/s 00:01 [##################] 100.0% downloading from https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/vf7w4yiax38ra7x8aqqvbnc38c0ldgpm-zile-on-guile-2.4.14-0.fd09781... zile-on-guile-2.4.14-0.fd09781 140KiB 1.8MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0% The following derivation will be built: /gnu/store/d9xms78917w67xq71pqsx5x9s6dmq6d7-profile.drv The following graft will be made: /gnu/store/4n6dmg6iwjg0adpcvqygr9wgsnclswss-vim-full-8.2.0411.drv applying 8 grafts for /gnu/store/4n6dmg6iwjg0adpcvqygr9wgsnclswss-vim-full-8.2.0411.drv... building /gnu/store/d9xms78917w67xq71pqsx5x9s6dmq6d7-profile.drv... --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- 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? -- Ricardo
