Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 10:41:54 -0700 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com>, FreeBSD <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Cc: rde@tavi.co.uk, 000.fbsd@quip.cz Subject: Re: Pause pkg install messages Message-ID: <e05e2fb7-7fb4-c954-c5ca-a1cd8cbb0484@nomadlogic.org> In-Reply-To: <CAECmPwsD=wB=duhUQmiqbMgM9OvD%2BKt6d4%2B1iY-N8eDXKCJ%2BkA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAECmPwuOyHBkne7AVtPHXAi6KhgtQFq_OYsaCjd4BBP6Hat8OQ@mail.gmail.com> <20180524091741.59dbabf2@raksha.tavi.co.uk> <CAECmPwvDG=A4BJLH17YoWGcOP6hZh%2Bx4j0aD9uRf%2B29%2B=zZAJg@mail.gmail.com> <999c38f3-8127-6ffa-fad1-818566c2801a@quip.cz> <CAECmPwsD=wB=duhUQmiqbMgM9OvD%2BKt6d4%2B1iY-N8eDXKCJ%2BkA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/24/2018 02:46, Johannes Lundberg wrote: > >> If you need to re-show message of any installed package, "pkg info -D" >> (or pkg info --pkg-message) is your friend. Nothing is lost. You can >> view it anytime. >> > If you're in virtualbox on a laptop, you seldom have scroll lock unless you > map it manually (which is not easy to know how to do). > And, yes you can review the messages later but how do you know which of the > 100's of package had important messages for you? > > Often when I install 100's of package I walk away from the computer and > when I come back all the messages except the very last one or two have > scrolled by. > I think we should have a pager that says something like "please carefully > read through these messages", halt the output and let's you scroll one page > or pkg at the time. > > Even better, a Y/N question asking the user if they want configuration to > be done for them where it makes sense (but that's a bigger project). > I think having pkg output something along the lines of "missed important messages or want to view them again, run pkg info -D at any time. here's the list of pkgs we just installed:" would be a good improvement. it would encourage people to get more comfortable with the pkg tool itself while not changing the default behaviour that experienced admins/users have gotten used to. -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA
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