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On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 21:16:52 -0500 |
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Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Scenario 5: Ebuild speech |
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> > On completion of merging the portage ebuild sleeps for ~15 seconds, |
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> > the baselayout ebuild for ~10 seconds and even dev-sources sleeps |
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> > for ~5 seconds whilst all these packages display messages. In my |
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> > opinion, this is downright pointless. On a source distribution like |
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> > 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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I can't imagine anyone who missed those messages before will read the |
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now, just because we added a sleep and maybe even beeps to it. |
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IMHO those messages are only missed during emerge -u/e world, because |
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you probably won't sit there hours or days, waiting for some important |
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message, but hey... You still don't sit there if it beeps and sleeps! |
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Markus Nigbur |
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