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["Jeremy A. Kolb" <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

I love the dependency messages, those are pretty useful and it's nice to 
see what depends on what.  The only bit that I believe is excessive is on 
sorcery update when it shows every single file being installed.  I don't 
think that that is necessary.

Jeremy

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Andrew wrote:

> Can you describe what messages you think are too verbose or uninteresting?
> They may very well just be left over debug messages.
> 
> My usual mode of operation is to try and keep the user informed of whats
> going on. For example I added more messages to depends resolution because
> there can be huge pauses in certain cases and it can seem as if sorcery
> isnt doing anything.
> 
> I agree that having an adjustable level of verbosity would be
> advantageous. Its a bit too late to do all that for 1.11 imo but
> hopefully we can get something in for 1.12.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 03:41:32PM +0200, Eric Schabell wrote:
> > Howdy all,
> > 
> > I am not sure we as developers even notice, but it seems to me as a user
> > of devel/test sorcery that the verbosity is leaning a bit far on the
> > side of printing what should be debugging messages as standard user
> > output... maybe time for a look at what a user needs to see instead of
> > just printing out everything sorcery is doing?
> > 
> > Used to be a clean and simple interface...
> > 
> > PS. I dropped this on irc but think it should be sent out into the
> > community before stable sorcery is created from the current test.
> > 
> > erics
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