Re: hide more output

2020-05-18 Thread Nicolò Balzarotti
Hi! Katherine Cox-Buday writes: > Jelle Licht writes: > >> I care very much on whether this will be quick 5 minute thing, or I will >> have to leave my laptop crunching for the next 36 hours. > > I echo this sentiment. > > I have often wished for a "--no-build" flag for updates. Most of the > ti

Re: hide more output

2020-05-18 Thread Katherine Cox-Buday
Jelle Licht writes: > I care very much on whether this will be quick 5 minute thing, or I will > have to leave my laptop crunching for the next 36 hours. I echo this sentiment. I have often wished for a "--no-build" flag for updates. Most of the time I can wait until the substitutes are availab

Re: hide more output

2020-05-18 Thread Jelle Licht
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> So in effect, it wouldn’t display anything upfront, only the size of the >> stuff downloaded right? Plus maybe the list of things to build? > > I think the list of things to build is a lower level details. The users > want to know what's

Re: hide more output

2020-05-18 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ludovic Courtès writes: > So in effect, it wouldn’t display anything upfront, only the size of the > stuff downloaded right? Plus maybe the list of things to build? I think the list of things to build is a lower level details. The users want to know what's going to end up in their profile, the

Re: hide more output

2020-05-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > But can we do even shorter? > > - Move the graft information which is somewhat low-level to --verbose=N. > - Remove the duplicate profile information ("The following > derivation..." and "building "/gnu...-profile.drv"). > - If we move the URL to --verbose=N, wh

Re: hide more output

2020-05-06 Thread zimoun
On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 22:01, Bengt Richter wrote: > Just so I don't have to re-run something very timeconsuming to see the > verbose version. In this case, you can always run the command using the verbose option. It is the same with all the CLI I know, one cannot have the milk and the butter fo

Re: hide more output

2020-05-06 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi, On +2020-05-06 16:25:19 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > > > 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 ” by default, because the URLs don’

Re: hide more output

2020-05-06 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Good idea! But can we do even shorter? - Move the graft information which is somewhat low-level to --verbose=N. - Remove the duplicate profile information ("The following derivation..." and "building "/gnu...-profile.drv"). - If we move the URL to --verbose=N, why not doing the same for the sto

Re: hide more output

2020-05-06 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 16:25, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I think it’s nice to see the URLs, or rather the host part thereof, when > using multiple substitute servers. But perhaps we can still make that > less verbose? Kind of 'guix-prettify-mode'? For example shortened as 'https://ci.g

Re: hide more output

2020-05-06 Thread zimoun
On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 16:08, Jan Nieuwenhuizen 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 8.2.041

Re: hide more output

2020-05-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > 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 ” by default, because the URLs don’t > really matter to users. We can unhide that bit of info when slightly

Re: hide more output

2020-05-06 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
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/vf7w4yiax38ra7x8aqqv

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2020-05-06 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
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