[bug#74882] [PATCH] scripts: substitute: Refine 'updating substitutes' message.

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hello!

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> * guix/scripts/substitute.scm (process-query): Attempt to precise the 'update
>> substitutes' message.
>
> [...]
>
>> -              (G_ "updating substitutes from '~a'... ~5,1f%")
>> +              (G_ "looking for suitable substitutes on '~a'... ~5,1f%")
>
> Part of the challenge here is having something that fits on one line,
> which is still 80 characters for many (heck, GNOME Console or whatever
> it’s called these days, the incarnation of modernity, defaults to 80
> columns!).

In the original case we have 80 - 37 => 43 characters available for the
server URL.

The above diff would reduce that to 33 characters available for the
server URL; that' sill enough for our current default substitute URLs
(https://ci.guix.gnu.org/ is 24 characters, while
https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/ is 30 characters) although doesn't leave
much headroom.

We could perhaps shorten to just "looking for substitutes on" (drop the
'suitable ' part) ?  That'd be already an improvement when it comes to
more accurately reports what is actually happening.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim