Subject: [bug#34249] [PATCH] guix package: Avoid spinner at end of output.

From: Christopher Baines <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2019 19:50:31 +0000

Often guix package will report something like the following when performing
operations, for example:

  guix package -i hello
  ...
  building /gnu/store/wiwqmbi66gcr27dac3qqgrc8imyp1344-profile.drv...
  -117 packages in profile

Now there aren't -117 packages in this profile, it's just the spinner running
in to the output from Guix package. I'm not sure if this is a proper solution
for this issue, but it does work.

* guix/scripts/package.scm (build-and-use-profile): Erase the spinner before
output.
---
 guix/scripts/package.scm | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/guix/scripts/package.scm b/guix/scripts/package.scm
index a633d2ee6d..4db0e72e9b 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/package.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/package.scm
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ hooks\" run when building the profile."
                (switch-symlinks profile (basename name))
                (unless (string=? profile %current-profile)
                  (register-gc-root store name))
+               (display "\r") ; erase the spinner
                (format #t (N_ "~a package in profile~%"
                               "~a packages in profile~%"
                               count)
-- 
2.20.1