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Daniel Heemann wrote: |
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>On Thursday 27 October 2005 03:41, George Lober wrote: |
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>>I don't know if this has been asked before, but I would like to make a |
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>>request to add an audible warning to portage. Specifically what I would |
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>>like portage to do is to give an audible notice when it stops due to an |
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>>error, or when it completes its full job. This would be implemented as |
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>>an option switch to turn the warnings on, unless the devs. feel like I |
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>>do that it would be a very usefull feature that most people would prefer |
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>>turned on by default. My suggestion would be to have a long extended |
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>>beep indicating a stop due to an error and maybe four or five very short |
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>>beeps (shorter than the ones one gets as a warning to read something) |
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>>when the job finishes normally. I think this feature would make things a |
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>>lot easier for a lot of people, not having to keep checking on your |
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>>computer to see whats going on all the time. |
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>emerge -u world && beep -l 1000 || beep -l 500 -r 5 |
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Thank you and Zac Medico for your replies. The examples show how trivial |
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the solution can be. I do think though that there are less knowledgeable |
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Gentoo users out there (like myself) who aren't Bash programmers or |
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command line wizzes, and don't have the time or inclination to become |
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ones for the sake of something like this, who would appreciate having |
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the function built into Portage. I just thought of this myself and I |
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have been using Gentoo for several years. I think if you present the |
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option to users, they will become aware of the possibility and will end |
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up using it. |
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Regards, |
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George Lober |
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