[pacman-dev] TotalDownload option.

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Sun Nov 11 10:27:33 EST 2007


On Nov 11, 2007 9:06 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:08:22PM +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> >
> > Hm, I don't like % between ##, I think this would be ok:
> > gcc-libs-4.2.2-2-i686   1081.1K  665.7K/s 00:00:02 [#################]
> > 100% |   8%
> >
>
> Is the newline made on purpose? I think it looks nicer on the same line. And
> as Nathan said, I don't know either if it's possible to do it on multiple
> lines.
> Otherwise, that's also what I was thinking from the beginning. Just
> displaying the two percentages.
> IMO, this should make everyone happy, and make the need of the TotalDownload
> option less important.

Ha! This is a great example why I think we shouldn't do two
percentages. We already are cramming too much info on one line, and
adding another 7 chars to that line will be hard to do (almost every
package name will get cut off).

-Dan




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