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From: Daniel Heemann <daniel.heemann@×××.de>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage feature request
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:25:38
Message-Id: 200510272124.40680.daniel.heemann@gmx.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] Portage feature request by George Lober
1 On Thursday 27 October 2005 03:41, George Lober wrote:
2 > I don't know if this has been asked before, but I would like to make a
3 > request to add an audible warning to portage. Specifically what I would
4 > like portage to do is to give an audible notice when it stops due to an
5 > error, or when it completes its full job. This would be implemented as
6 > an option switch to turn the warnings on, unless the devs. feel like I
7 > do that it would be a very usefull feature that most people would prefer
8 > turned on by default. My suggestion would be to have a long extended
9 > beep indicating a stop due to an error and maybe four or five very short
10 > beeps (shorter than the ones one gets as a warning to read something)
11 > when the job finishes normally. I think this feature would make things a
12 > lot easier for a lot of people, not having to keep checking on your
13 > computer to see whats going on all the time.
14
15 emerge -u world && beep -l 1000 || beep -l 500 -r 5
16
17 Regards
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