Bug#1129473: cme: Please provide an option to disable the loading %ages

[Dominique Dumont]

On Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:15:54 +1300 Andrew McMillan <andrew at mcmillan.net.nz> 
wrote:
> When I run `cme` in a pipeline, as a step in reviewing packages in the
> NEW queue, it outputs the following unnecessary information which is
> fine, interactively, but not so great when it's saved for later
> reporting:
> 
> 
> ```
> Reading package lists... 0%

These message are generated by AptPkg::Cache.

Fortunately, there's a parameter to reduce the verbosity of AptPkg::Cache.

> I would love if there were a `-quiet` option, or similar, which would
> omit this.

Given the desing of cme, Config::Model and Dpkg model, setting up an option is 
not possible. The only practical way would be an env variable.

However, I don't really care about AptPkg progress messages, so  let's setup 
AptPkg in quiet mode.

HTH