Re: [PATCH 1/2] progress: create progress struct in 'verbose' mode

Emily Shaffer [off-list ref] writes:

The main concern I saw here was "we are doing a lot of work that isn't
used if the user doesn't want to log traces" - should I approach a
reroll of this topic by trying to be smarter about whether to set
'quiet' or 'print' or 'verbose' or whatever it is renamed to, based on
whether there is a trace destination? Then for systems which are logging
traces the extra work is worth it, but for everyone else it can function
as before.

I don't love it from a design perspective - it feels a little like
progress module is looking a little too closely at trace module
internals.

Isn't that primarily due to the decision to tie progress and trace
too closely?  If so, perhaps that needs to be revisited?

I dunno.