[pacman-dev] TotalDownload option.

[Roman Kyrylych]

2007/11/11, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com>:
> 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%

Sure it was not done on purpose, I wanted it to be one line. That's
stupid Gmail text input.
To get more space we can always shrink ###-bar. It's 21 chars long on
standard 80-char wide terminal. I think it could easily be 15-16 chars
wide.

:: Retrieving packages from extra...
 hal-info                  28,2K   37,2K/s 00:00:01 [################] 100% 100%
Here I've removed 5 #s and added " 100%" on the right (global
progress) so everything looks ok on standard 80-char wide terminal.


> 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


-- 
Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)