2008/9/28 Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych@gmail.com>:
You risk to be flamed. ;-) I know, I know :P I doubt most devs will agree about this due to "stay as close to vanilla as possible, with bugfixes only" policy. This patch is just an extra feature, not merged by upstream. And there are more generic ways to add progressbars to console utils. For example: bar - http://www.theiling.de/projects/bar.html pv - http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml both are in community, and I saw 2 or 3 other similar utils somewhere on the web. I didn't know they. I'll try them, thanks.
btw, I looked comments in the bug report. Daenyth have persuaded me to keep the patch out from arch with these words: "Let's keep things minimal, I'm pretty sure the stated policy is to only patch when a major feature is broken, or if it needs patches to work with arch, and not to add new features" Thanks for your time Cheers -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Trusted User Linux User: #430842