I downloading and upgraded to the latest daily, and have some suggestions for the yum download feedback. The currently form seems foreign to to the style of output that yum had before. The main problem being multiple lines, and the secondary problem being the progress bar. To me it makes more sense to have one line for each things. I provided examples below. Server: stable for Fedora Linux 0.94 header.info 100% |=========================| 4.5 kB 00:00 should be something more like Server: stable for Fedora Linux 0.94 - 100% 4.5 kB 00:00 Getting xine-0.9.22-0.fdr.4.0.94.i386.rpm xine-0.9.22-0.fdr.4.0.94. 100% |=========================| 1.7 MB 02:11 should be something like Getting xine-0.9.22-0.fdr.4.0.94.i386.rpm - 100% 1.7 MB 02:11 Another issue even more important to me if to not cut off long strings , like filenames. I want to see all of the filename so I know what it actually is. This can especially be a problem when there are two packages with very long, but similar names. I provided examples below. iamapackagewithareallylongnam 100% |=========================| 1.7 MB 02:11 iamapackagewithareallylongnam 100% |=========================| 1.7 MB 02:11 when the packages names would be something like iamapackagewithareallylongname-0.2.1.i386.rpm iamapackagewithareallylongname-devel-0.2.1.i386.rpm An alternative suggestion with minor differences is to clone the wget progess bar if you choose to keep a progress bar. I provided examples below |=================== | might be changed to something like [===================> ] I know other programs use progress bars and all, but I am looking for something that fits with the way yum was and adds to it nicely, instead of just hacking something in. Yum has out of the box been fairly non-verbose, with the exception of listing all the headers downloaded. Which brings up the point of on the first run there can be hundreds of lines if not thousands. A method should figured out that is a much less verbose default, and maybe making the current behavior show up at a higher debug level.
