bug#33470: Confusing spinner artefacts

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Gábor,

Thanks for your suggestion.

Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 23., P, 
> 7:43):
> >   -119 packages in profile
> >   |119 packages in profile

[...]

> I feel that simply inserting some whitespace between the spinner 
> and
> the text would make this less problematic.
> WDYT?

That would kill the ‘-119’ red herring but it's still ugly.

> Do you have any better suggestion?

I'd expect such droppings not to happen at all.

I regret that I haven't had time to look at the ‘new’ 
pretty-printing code (port?) yet, but it should be possible to 
clear the spinner before a new line. If that's much harder than it 
ought to be, our red herring's more of a red flag.

> > ugly and a little annoying,

T G-R