This is not really a bug, i just thought it would be nice to insert some nice ascii animations there... besides the scroller or the spinner... http://www.asciimator.net/asciimation/8 the jumping point would be funny ;-) (and/or others) 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. ;)
Closing as WONTFIX: Nick isn't around anymore, and in general nobody else cared much about the spinner stuff.