`--curses=no` has almost no information about analysis phase
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Description
### Description of the feature request:
When specifying `--curses=no`, there's almost no information about the analysis phase (what's being downloaded, while repo rules and modexts are being executed etc.) printed.
That's a shame, as `--curses=yes` has a _lot_ of interesting info about that.
### Which category does this issue belong to?
_No response_
### What underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?
GitHub actions logs with `--curses=auto` behaves as `--curses=no`, which makes our CI logs not very useful when it comes to guesstimating what's going on in the analysis phase.
### Which operating system are you running Bazel on?
Ubuntu 22.04
### What is the output of `bazel info release`?
7.3.1
### If `bazel info release` returns `development version` or `(@non-git)`, tell us how you built Bazel.
_No response_
### What's the output of `git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse HEAD` ?
_No response_
### Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?
_No response_
### Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?
_No response_
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by tracing Bazel's handling of --curses=no and --curses=auto during the analysis phase, then compare the information shown with --curses=yes. Define which analysis progress and download details should appear in CI logs, and add tests that verify the selected non-curses output.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- build-system, ci-cd, cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100