Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email)

[Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk>]

On Monday 03 November 2003 02:16, Jon Portnoy wrote:

> > -------------------------
> > Scenario 5: Ebuild speech
> > -------------------------
> > On completion of merging the portage ebuild sleeps for ~15 seconds, the
> > baselayout ebuild for ~10 seconds and even dev-sources sleeps for ~5
> > seconds whilst all these packages display messages.  In my opinion, this
> > is downright pointless.  On a source distribution like this one
> > especially
>
> Except that it sleeps for _very important messages_. Those timers are
> there because people were totally missing those messages.

My understanding of the original posters dislike is not that beep-and-sleep 
happens, nor that it happens by default, but rather that the behaviour is 
hard coded into individual ebuilds in a way that makes it difficult to 
customise.

I think we can reasonably debate whether beep-and-sleep is the best way of 
getting the users attention for these important messages, but I would be 
suprised if we didnt all agree that the current approach of putting 
beep-and-sleep in individual ebuilds is substandard.

-- 
Toby Dickenson


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