68642 – New emerge features="candy" option -- can't read text

Bug 68642 - New emerge features="candy" option -- can't read text

Summary: New emerge features="candy" option -- can't read text

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Reported:	2004-10-23 08:15 UTC by Shaun Crampton
Modified:	2005-07-31 00:48 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Shaun Crampton 2004-10-23 08:15:33 UTC

The new candy feature of protage seems to be broken -- all I see is a green cursor flicking back and forth, it seems to have a character in the cursor but it doesn't go fast enough to read the whole line of text.

Reproducible: Always
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Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.8-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs candy ccache distlocks prelink sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo/
http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X aalib aim alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi
bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr composite crypt cups dga directfb divx4linux doc dri
dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd f77 fbcon flac flash foomaticdb gd gdbm gif
gimpprint gmp gpm gstreamer gtk gtk+ gtk2 hardenedphp imlib jabber java
javascript jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww live mad matroska
media-video/mplayer:libcaca mikmod mmx mng monkey motif mpeg msn mysql ncurses
net-www/apache:threads nls oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl oss pam pdflib perl png
postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang speex spell
sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype usb wmf x86 xine xml xml2
xmms xprint xv xvid yahoo zlib video_cards_radeon linguas_en_GB"

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-28 09:45:48 UTC

No complaining because you can't read fast enough!

There are some more possiblities in the works.
Genone had/has some interesting changes.

Comment 2 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-31 00:48:48 UTC

The candy is meant to be for when portage is going so slow that you are able 
to read it so that you don't get bored.