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From: Lisa Seelye <lisa@gentoo.org>
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To: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: epause instead of sleep in ebuilds
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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.
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Lisa Seelye
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