I was going thru the bugs list to see what has been log and noted that there has been a couple of requests for the portage to download while compiling. One of the problems with that is that the display is very busy and you can't always see what goes where. How about using ncurses or some other way of splitting the screen in three parts and letting every application run in there own "window". Then you can have something like the following: ----------------------------------- |Package info | |---------------------------------- |Current emerge status | |---------------------------------- |Current wget status | ----------------------------------- I know that in the old days of pascal you have a window (startx,starty,endx,endy) procedure that would restrict the output of an application to that area, maybe there is something like that ? This can also provide the space for some nice info about what is currently going on. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Putting a hold on feature requests for portage as they are drowning out the bugs. Most of these features should be available in the next major version of portage. But for the time being, they are just drowning out the major bugs and delaying the next version's progress. Any bugs that contain patches and any bugs for etc-update or dispatch-conf can be reopened. Sorry, I'm just not good enough with bugzilla. ;)
