From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
Message-Id: <199509302136.OAA02165@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall install.c media.c tape.c
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 1995 14:36:15 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: jkh@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org,
        cvs-user@freefall.freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <21532.812496855@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 30, 95 02:34:15 pm
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> 
> > Humm... in that case I think ``I'' would rather see this switched back to
> > doing the dots things, as at least then I had a chance to see an error in
> > the output, as a by file name type listing will quickly scroll any type
> > of error off the debug screens.  You can implement the "", "-v", "-V"
> > option as a 2.2 feature addition.
> 
> Well, this was originally why I did things that way but I've received
> like 5 or 6 complaints from people saying that they would much rather
> see which files are being extracted so they know more about what's
> being installed.  I guess it's not possible to please everyone,
> at least not without adding the aformentioned generalization stuff.

You might mention to the people that have asked for this ``feature''
my feelings on the subject and see if they would rather have there
feature or my ability to find error messages in the output :-).

They can always find out what was installed with:
find / | sort >/tmp/install.list

:-).

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