[arch-projects] Pacman improvement

Tim Goff goffa at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 25 00:58:27 EDT 2004


I'm new to arch, didn't know where to send this. I
just took some advice from the #archlinux chan.

And um... you say the code could be written even by
you. It probably could, but i don't know how. That's
why i posted this.

--- Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:14:39PM -0700, Tim Goff
> wrote:
> > this as probably been posted before but here's my
> > idea:
> > 
> > Instead of
> > current                  [################] 100%  
>   
> > 38K    14.2K/s  00:00:02
> > extra                    [################] 100%  
>  
> > 147K    14.8K/s  00:00:10
> > 
> > We should change pacman to
> > Instead of
> > current                  [C...............]   0%  
>   
> > 38K    14.2K/s  00:00:02
> > Instead of
> > current                  [       C........]  50%  
>   
> > 38K    14.2K/s  00:00:02
> > current                  [            C...]  75%  
>  
> > 147K    14.8K/s  00:00:10
> > Current                  [               C] 100%  
>  
> > 147K    14.8K/s  00:00:10
> > 
> > Just to reflect the name. 
> 
> I hate to say this, but I don't think this is
> technically interesting or
> really all that difficult to do.  A patch could be
> written very easily,
> even by you, to implement something like this and
> submit it as a bug.
> 
> I think a request like this should go to the regular
> arch mailing list.
> 
> Jason
> 
> -- 
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> 
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