On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:43:14 -0500
Anthony de Boer <gentoo-dev@lists.leftmind.net> wrote:

> Jon Portnoy wrote:
> > Many, many users use locate and many would complain if it was
> > missing. 
> 
> On a box where only I have a shell, and never use slocate, it's not
> needed and does get annoying when cron kicks in.  This is probably a
> very good example of something where people can agree to disagree. and
> having a well-documented switch is a good thing.
> 
> >  ... rm /etc/cron.daily/locatedb.cron ...
> 
> That does it, though chmod -x would be less fatal and more reversible.
> I prefer to actually remove the package, though emerge insists on
> wanting to put it back in when I update world, so we're having a
> wrestling match.

emerge inject is your friend

> It's probably with good reason that I'm hesitant to muck with
> profiles.
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Except that *I* sleep for _very long compiles_.  :-)

I totally agree these sleeps are not the good way. We're waiting for the
buffered messages to the end of the emerge process .. _that_ should
solve the problem. (don't forget to remove the beeps too)

> Also, I frequently emerge multiple packages at once, and only the
> last's tail will still be on my screen when I come back.  Even when
> I'm awake, I rarely sit and watch the build go by.
> 
> It might be good to have a batch flag to ebuild or in FEATURES that
> says not to bother with sleep-and-beep because nobody is around.
> 
> Some tools to find the Very Important Messages in PORT_LOGDIR's
> copious output (I have 42 meg of build output there right now) would
> be helpful. Ideally I'd be able to come back to the computer and
> review all the messages from recently-completed builds.
> 
> Storing the important messages in a release-notes file under
> /var/db/pkg/*/*, so they're with the build permanently, might also be
> a worthy idea.
> 
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> Anthony de Boer
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