On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?:

>On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +0000, David W Noon wrote:
>> You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!!
>
>Why is that surprising?

Because emerge jobs produce copious amounts of output that is difficult
to read as it scrolls past.  I much prefer the cron daemon or at daemon
to send me the output as email, so I can scroll backwards and forwards
through it at my leisure.

>My laptop does not have an always-on internet
>connection, nevermind it sits silently and off for most of the day. I
>"sync by hand" when I have time, roughly twice each week. 

Well, when your laptop is powered off the cron daemon won't run the
emerge jobs, so that's really a non-issue.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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