On 9/13/24 2:52 PM, bent fender wrote:
pacman in Artix always starts the downloads with the biggest file (few exceptions) so it seems slow at first when the patience vial is still full but starts to seemingly really fly as patience wears thin. The totals line keeps me better informed, after all, among the things I want to know are definitely how much time is left, where we are in the list, what the current DL rate is ...as changing as these might be dynamically.
Glad you posted the link! Haven't tried Artix, will have to look and see what it is, but the download in descending order of size is on a Per-Repo basis, so for normal Arch, that is a minimum of core + extra repos and you can see the result in: https://paste.opensuse.org/pastes/9ac4387de789 I share your observation that the pacman progress output is much easier on the eyes to understand at a glance. I don't have any complaints about the zypper output, it's just busier to follow along during the update. Anyway, I like your underlying point, that if there were to be changes to modernize the zypper output, looking at what Arch does is always a good place to gather idea. Who know, the zypper devs may find a better way and then we could make the suggestion on the Arch list to take a look at the way SUSE is doing it with zypper. pacman 7 (a major update) is out shortly, within the next day or so, and it will be interesting to see if there are any visual update (doubtful). -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.