From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27103 invoked by uid 1002); 3 Nov 2003 08:49:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29620 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2003 08:49:31 -0000 From: Toby Dickenson To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 08:49:30 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <3FA5AF6F.5030501@codewordt.co.uk> <20031103021652.GA29426@cerberus.oppresses.us> In-Reply-To: <20031103021652.GA29426@cerberus.oppresses.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Reply-To: tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200311030849.30179.tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email) X-Archives-Salt: 33f4465d-a551-4181-8047-eba84a10614f X-Archives-Hash: 3cdb51b48a11a7cb2c40606a2a5fec49 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list