From owner-freebsd-commit Sun Oct 1 04:07:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-commit Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA04159 for freebsd-commit-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 04:07:48 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA04061 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 04:06:23 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA04048 for cvs-user-outgoing; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 04:06:20 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA03998 ; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 04:06:00 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA21035; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 12:05:54 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA25852; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 12:05:54 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA20483; Sun, 1 Oct 1995 09:48:06 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510010848.JAA20483@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall install.c media.c tape.c To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 09:48:05 +0100 (MET) Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-user@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <21532.812496855@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 30, 95 02:34:15 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 649 Sender: owner-commit@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Well, this was originally why I did things that way but I've received > like 5 or 6 complaints from people saying that they would much rather > see which files are being extracted so they know more about what's > being installed. I guess it's not possible to please everyone, > at least not without adding the aformentioned generalization stuff. Wouldn't "-V" for the non-verbose and "-v" for the verbose case be a practical compromise without causing too much trouble? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)