From owner-freebsd-commit Sat Sep 30 14:36:07 1995 Return-Path: owner-commit Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA18628 for freebsd-commit-outgoing; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 14:36:07 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA18474 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 14:34:42 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA18462 for cvs-user-outgoing; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 14:34:40 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA18437 ; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 14:34:28 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA21534; Sat, 30 Sep 1995 14:34:15 -0700 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: jkh@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-user@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall install.c media.c tape.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 30 Sep 1995 13:18:33 PDT." <199509302018.NAA02098@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 14:34:15 -0700 Message-ID: <21532.812496855@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-commit@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Humm... in that case I think ``I'' would rather see this switched back to > doing the dots things, as at least then I had a chance to see an error in > the output, as a by file name type listing will quickly scroll any type > of error off the debug screens. You can implement the "", "-v", "-V" > option as a 2.2 feature addition. 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. Jordan