Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (233 mails)

[Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 10:12:56PM -0800, Space Case wrote:
> Whose bright idea was it to add an ascii spinner when the large texlive 
> packages
> (e.g. texlive-doc and texlive-latex-doc) are doing their thing?  I use Smart 
> to
> do my package management, and I end up with tens of thousands of lines of:
> [-]
> [\]
> [|]
> [/]
> and it make it very hard to scroll just to the parts of the log that have 
> actual
> messages to display.  Is there any way to turn that feature off?

Please file a bug report and suggest to print a single dot for 100 or
500 lines of output the tex stuff generates.

In an earlier version of openSUSE Factory post the 11.2 release this had
been worse.

BTW the smart approach is nice but doesn't scale as well as libzypp and
zypper does since quite some time. With zypper I had been able to move
an old 133 MHz CPU and 32 MB RAM system from openSUSE 11.1 to 11.2 while
operation as explained in the openSUSE wiki at
http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade  You have to be careful with the -d
option as it requires a lot of disk space at /var/cache/zypp/

Lars
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Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
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