8083 – turn off emerge's spinner when sys.stdout is not a tty

Bug 8083 - turn off emerge's spinner when sys.stdout is not a tty

Summary: turn off emerge's spinner when sys.stdout is not a tty

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)

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Duplicates (1):	6043 (view as bug list)
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emerge.diff; changes to portage 2.0.36 to supress the spinner if stdout is not a tty (emerge.2.3.diff,1.77 KB, patch) 2002-09-18 18:11 UTC, Toby Dickenson	Details \| Diff
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Description Toby Dickenson 2002-09-18 18:09:29 UTC

The spinner is allegedly handy when run interactively, but it makes a mess 
when output is redirected to a file.

Comment 1 Toby Dickenson 2002-09-18 18:11:21 UTC

Created attachment 4004 [details, diff]
emerge.diff; changes to portage 2.0.36 to supress the spinner if stdout is not a tty

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-09-18 18:58:07 UTC

*** Bug 6043 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-10-20 03:21:36 UTC

In 2.0.41.
Thanks.