Niall Power wrote:
> I installed from a test iso today and saw the new progress messages during 
> the installation phase.
> I think the appropriateness of some is debatable. Once the target 
> instantiation bit was done and the transfer phase began, the messages I saw 
> were as follows:
>
> 1. "Building cpio file lists"
> 2. "Transferring LiveCD Contents"
> 3. "Fixing zero-length files"
> 4. "Extracting archives"
> 5. "Cleaning up"
>
> 1 and 3 definitely seem unsuitable to me. There is too much implementation 
> specific
> information that indicates how rather than what is being done, at least to my 
> mind.
> These messages should not be treated like a debug log.
>
> Thoughts?
>   
I agree. Those two refer to internal implementation rather than stating 
the activity from an understandable end user point of view. Even 4 is 
questionable.

Frank
> Cheers,
> Niall.
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