[pacman-dev] Multiple progress bars not compatible with dumb terminals

[Allan McRae]

On 29/6/21 7:23 pm, miha--- via pacman-dev wrote:
> On less capable terminals, pacman should probably display only one
> active progress bar simultaneously.
> 
> An example of such a terminal is Emacs's M-x shell ($TERM == "dumb"). It
> can't display the additional "total" properly because it doesn't
> implement cursor movement.
> 

For such terminals you can use "--noprogressbar", or set the equivalent
in pacman.conf.

Allan