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From: Lisa Seelye <lisa@gentoo.org>
To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
Cc: lisa@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: epause instead of sleep in ebuilds
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:39:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094236770.20758.48.camel@lisa.thedoh.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040901212144.1d18b048@snowdrop.home>

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On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 16:21, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Currently, we have something like 200 ebuilds which call 'sleep'. How
> would people feel about replacing this with an eutils function called
> 'epause' (or 'esleep', or 'ezzz', or esitaroundforabit)? This would give
> us two advantages:

+1 for the idea.

Would be neat to have some options:

epause --beep 1s --sleep 5s

To beep one second for 5 seconds while sleeping... Just a thought.
-- 
Regards,
Lisa Seelye
Key fingerprint = 09CF 52D6 B82B 72B9 97A7  601B CB46 B556 1E49 6FC5

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-03 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-01 20:21 [gentoo-dev] rfc: epause instead of sleep in ebuilds Ciaran McCreesh
2004-09-01 20:40 ` Karl Trygve Kalleberg
2004-09-01 20:43   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-09-02  7:02     ` Alexander Gretencord
2004-09-02  7:43       ` Dice R. Random
2004-09-02 13:30       ` Mike Frysinger
2004-09-02 18:03         ` Alexander Gretencord
2004-09-02 18:51           ` Mike Doty
2004-09-02 20:03             ` N. Owen Gunden
2004-09-03 12:21               ` Paul de Vrieze
2004-09-03 18:17       ` Simon Stelling
2004-09-04  6:49         ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2004-09-01 20:49 ` Seemant Kulleen
2004-09-01 21:29   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-09-01 22:10     ` Tavis Ormandy
2004-09-01 22:41     ` Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
2004-09-02 13:05     ` Guillaume Destuynder
2004-09-02 13:49       ` Mamoru KOMACHI
2004-09-02 13:56         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-09-01 21:09 ` Chris Gianelloni
2004-09-01 21:17 ` Tavis Ormandy
2004-09-01 22:27 ` Mike Frysinger
2004-09-02  0:22 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-09-02  3:09   ` Brian Harring
2004-09-02  3:16     ` Mike Frysinger
2004-09-03 18:39 ` Lisa Seelye [this message]

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