On 6/6/21 2:56 AM, Ralph Corderoy via arch-general wrote: > Hi David, > >> Why the informative text output from a package manager should use >> anything other than basic terminal capabilities seems to fly in the >> face of the Arch KISS philosophy. > > As long as it's querying terminfo(5) to check for the capability and > using the escape sequence presented there if it exists then that would > seem fine. If it just blindly writes bytes and assumes the world can > understand them... And Thomas Dickey's xterm(1) is superb in its > correctness so that's the main thing to test it with. > Is there any simple way to turn of the parallel download of the packages files that seems to be at the root of this "new technology". I would be quite happy to just have the files download sequentially again? Also, when I update my server at home, this seems aimed ab better saturating the bandwidth to speed things up. Only problem is if my kids are playing games -- the howls of bad ping times and cries of "Dad what are you doing?" see to come without much delay :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
