> > That would be highly annoying if that's the case. Finding out how/where
> > a -jN build breaks pretty much requires the banners so making one add an
> > option to get it seems "broke".
> 
> i have no strong opinion about default behaviour.
> what i want is a way to suppress banners.

To what end? If it's a -j >1 those are critically useful. I could maybe see
an addition (say -Q) which suppressed them, but all -v should do (IMO) is
add additional verbosity. It shouldn't disable a current default and then
require an option to turn it back on.

James