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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: don't define ebeep and epause in eutils in EAPI 3
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:57:22
Message-Id: 4B56A8FF.7040704@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: don't define ebeep and epause in eutils in EAPI 3 by Peter Volkov
1 On 01/19/2010 10:37 AM, Peter Volkov wrote:
2 > В Втр, 19/01/2010 в 01:22 +0200, Petteri Räty пишет:
3 >> On 01/18/2010 03:02 PM, Tiziano Müller wrote:
4 >>> The proper replacement for such interactive notifications when called in
5 >>> pkg_setup is pkg_pretend, which will (hopefully) be available in EAPI 4.
6 >>> Thus I'd keep them around until then.
7 >
8 >> ebeep or epause don't make your ebuild interactive.
9 >
10 > True, but some ebuilds (e.g. tcpdump) do following:
11 >
12 > ewarn "CAUTION !!! CAUTION !!! CAUTION"
13 > ewarn "..."
14 > ewarn "Press Ctrl+C to abort installation"
15 > ebeep 5
16 >
17 > And it's better to keep ebeep in such packages until pkg_pretend became
18 > available.
19 >
20
21 PROPERTIES="interactive" and really ask the user to proceed if it's
22 really that important.
23
24 Regards,
25 Petteri

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