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

I'd take a vote or something, maybe other people like it? Maybe we can 
make it an option?  I just think it's a little too long and outputting all 
of that to the screen takes time.

Jeremy

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Andrew wrote:

> I always figured it was similar to when you cast something you get all
> the output. But fair enough, it can be supressed.
> 
> -Andrew
> 
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 04:41:33PM -0400, Jeremy A. Kolb wrote:
> > 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
> > > > -- 
> > > > Eric D. Schabell M.Sc. - Z-Rejected Guru
> > > > irc.freenode.net (#sourcemage), nick -> erics
> > > > http://www.sourcemage.org
> > > 
> > > 
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