[pacman-dev] TotalDownload option.

[Xavier]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:27:33AM -0600, Dan McGee wrote:
> 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).
> 

Ok good point, but since we are short on space, are all the informations
currently displayed more interesting than the total percent?
For example, the -i686 suffix in package name isn't very useful.
And there are 3 different options only for showing the progress of the
current package : remaining time, progress bar, and percentage.
These take a lot of space :
00:00:02 [#################] 100%

Actually, I'm commenting this, but I don't really care, so feel free to
ignore the above. I'm happy with the current pacman output.
The only thing I'm less happy with are the bugs I mentioned previously, but
it doesn't have anything to do with the download output:
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-September/009317.html
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-October/009552.html