On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Kamil Dudka wrote:

> dracut developers are asking us to implement a simplified progress bar that
> would be similar to the output of --progress-bar but compatible with
> terminals that do not support the '\r' character:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806426
>
> Does such an enhancement make sense? Would it be accepted upstream?

I think we can accept such a change.

Maybe such a fix could (try to) detect terminal type and automatically switch
to the simpler mode?

Anyway, how would it work/look?

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