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From: Lisa Seelye <lisa@g.o>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Cc: lisa@g.o, gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: epause instead of sleep in ebuilds
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 18:40:12
Message-Id: 1094236770.20758.48.camel@lisa.thedoh.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] rfc: epause instead of sleep in ebuilds by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 16:21, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > Currently, we have something like 200 ebuilds which call 'sleep'. How
3 > would people feel about replacing this with an eutils function called
4 > 'epause' (or 'esleep', or 'ezzz', or esitaroundforabit)? This would give
5 > us two advantages:
6
7 +1 for the idea.
8
9 Would be neat to have some options:
10
11 epause --beep 1s --sleep 5s
12
13 To beep one second for 5 seconds while sleeping... Just a thought.
14 --
15 Regards,
16 Lisa Seelye
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