Pause pkg install messages

[Dan Mahoney (Gushi)]

On Thu, 24 May 2018, Pete Wright wrote:

>
>
> On 05/24/2018 02:46, Johannes Lundberg wrote:
>> 
>>> If you need to re-show message of any installed package, "pkg info -D"
>>> (or pkg info --pkg-message) is your friend. Nothing is lost. You can
>>> view it anytime.
>>> 
>> If you're in virtualbox on a laptop, you seldom have scroll lock unless you
>> map it manually (which is not easy to know how to do).
>> And, yes you can review the messages later but how do you know which of the
>> 100's of package had important messages for you?
>> 
>> Often when I install 100's of package I walk away from the computer and
>> when I come back all the messages except the very last one or two have
>> scrolled by.
>> I think we should have a pager that says something like "please carefully
>> read through these messages", halt the output and let's you scroll one page
>> or pkg at the time.
>> 
>> Even better, a Y/N question asking the user if they want configuration to
>> be done for them where it makes sense (but that's a bigger project).
>> 
> I think having pkg output something along the lines of "missed important 
> messages or want to view them again, run pkg info -D at any time.  here's the 
> list of pkgs we just installed:" would be a good improvement.
>
> it would encourage people to get more comfortable with the pkg tool itself 
> while not changing the default behaviour that experienced admins/users have 
> gotten used to.

All FreeBSD systems by default come set up with the expectation that 
you (the admin) are going to receive mail from cron and periodic.  I'd opt 
to also email this, on by default, but turn-offable.

FWIW, I believe this is also what Debian does.

Best,

-Dan

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