Bug 8083

Summary:	turn off emerge's spinner when sys.stdout is not a tty
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Toby Dickenson <toby>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	heberle, kevin
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	emerge.diff; changes to portage 2.0.36 to supress the spinner if stdout is not a tty

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.