On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 01:52:31PM -0700, Michael Stenner wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 12:40:55PM -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote: > > > Anyway, my main point is that 0 should mean nothing wacky happened > > > (again, just make the call to serve as many people as possible... the > > > rest will just have to cope), provide specific feedback for a few > > > common cases and provide general feedback for the rest. That'll meet > > > the needs of 95% of the people who want this. The rest will have to > > > suck it up. That's what they have to do now. > > Well, it already does, right? We're just talking about duplicating > that information (to the extent it's possible) in the exit code. > > -Michael I mean in a concise 1-line form like: pkgs installed:1 failed:2 missing 1 groups: completed 1 incomplete 3 Or somethign like that. -Peter -- The 5 year plan: In five years we'll make up another plan. Or just re-use this one.
