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

[Markus Nigbur <pYrania@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 21:16:52 -0500
Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org> 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.

I can't imagine anyone who missed those messages before will read the
now, just because we added a sleep and maybe even beeps to it.
IMHO those messages are only missed during emerge -u/e world, because
you probably won't sit there hours or days, waiting for some important
message, but hey... You still don't sit there if it beeps and sleeps!

-- 
Markus Nigbur
Gentoo Developer
http://www.gentoo.org

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