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Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> Many, many users use locate and many would complain if it was missing. |
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On a box where only I have a shell, and never use slocate, it's not |
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needed and does get annoying when cron kicks in. This is probably a very |
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good example of something where people can agree to disagree. and having |
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a well-documented switch is a good thing. |
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> ... rm /etc/cron.daily/locatedb.cron ... |
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That does it, though chmod -x would be less fatal and more reversible. I |
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prefer to actually remove the package, though emerge insists on wanting to |
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put it back in when I update world, so we're having a wrestling match. |
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It's probably with good reason that I'm hesitant to muck with profiles. |
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> > On completion of merging the portage ebuild sleeps for ~15 seconds, the |
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> > baselayout ebuild for ~10 seconds and even dev-sources sleeps for ~5 |
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> > seconds whilst all these packages display messages. In my opinion, this is |
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> > downright pointless. On a source distribution like this one especially |
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> Except that it sleeps for _very important messages_. Those timers are |
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> there because people were totally missing those messages. |
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Except that *I* sleep for _very long compiles_. :-) |
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Also, I frequently emerge multiple packages at once, and only the last's |
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tail will still be on my screen when I come back. Even when I'm awake, |
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I rarely sit and watch the build go by. |
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It might be good to have a batch flag to ebuild or in FEATURES that says |
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not to bother with sleep-and-beep because nobody is around. |
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Some tools to find the Very Important Messages in PORT_LOGDIR's copious |
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output (I have 42 meg of build output there right now) would be helpful. |
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Ideally I'd be able to come back to the computer and review all the |
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messages from recently-completed builds. |
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Storing the important messages in a release-notes file under |
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/var/db/pkg/*/*, so they're with the build permanently, might also be a |
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worthy idea. |
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Anthony de Boer |
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