Bug#168465: apt: shouldn't always print statistics
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
% sudo apt-get install apt
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, apt is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
%
There's no point in printing the statistics for all these individual
requests, especially when they're all zeros (sometimes it'll include
other numbers, but that's still usually irrelevant for the situation
at hand).
It's a badly designed message, because it slows down people's scanning of
the screen -- it's common for the error message to be printed last. :)
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux pork 2.4.18 #17 Ned Tra 21 17:00:31 CEST 2002 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-12 The GNU stdc++ library
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