Hi, On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 02:42:07PM +0200, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > Pardon the intrusion, but who else feels like the new progress > indicator during port de/activation is an unnecessary overhead that > (in my timing) can make these steps take up 1.5-2x as long? (And for > me that's on spinning rust; I expect the overhead to be even larger > with fast disks.)
The progress bar only displays for ports with many files that take long to activate. > For now I just hack it out in > $prefix/libexec/registry2.0/portimage.tcl but unless I'm the only > person to be bothered by this it would be nice to control this via a > configuration flag. port -q disables them. Alternatively, connect the stream they print to (stdout by default, stderr on master) to something that's not a terminal (e.g., | cat). Feel free to contribute a macports.conf option in a pull request. -- Clemens
