Add verbose flag to commands that execute plugin callbacks
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
Sometimes hard to known what a plugin is doing. Sometimes the `list-all` or `install` command hangs and it isn't possible to see what is going on.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
Add a verbose mode to commands that execute plugin callbacks, `list-all`, `install`, etc...
**Describe similar asdf features and why they are not sufficient**
Plugins sometimes log messages to STDOUT, but the output isn't always very consistent and some plugins do not write out anything.
**Describe workarounds you've considered**
No known workarounds. Looking at the running processes doesn't really help the user understand what is going on.
**Additional context**
Created based on #526
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Research direction
Start by tracing the list-all and install command entry points to the plugin callbacks they execute. Review how those commands currently report output, then define consistent verbose progress reporting for callback execution; done means users can see what is happening when these commands appear to hang.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100