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bug#27157: [PATCH] Re: bug#27157: Building Guile 2.2 "times out"
From: |
Maxim Cournoyer |
Subject: |
bug#27157: [PATCH] Re: bug#27157: Building Guile 2.2 "times out" |
Date: |
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 16:09:18 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
[...]
>>> At any rate, it would be good to remove ‘max-silent-time’ from all the
>>> ‘%default-options’ variables, for consistency.
>>>
>>> Ludo’.
>>
>> I agree! In my view, interactive user commands should expect the users
>> to take action themselves (e.g.; user notice no output for 3 hours; hits
>> C-c. Or, user notice no output for 3 hours, check the process in top,
>> sees it's still doing something, decides to leave it running a couple
>> more hours).
>
> Yes. Would you like to prepare a patch to remove ‘max-silent-time’ from
> all the ‘%default-options’?
I gave this a quick try, but got confused upon encountering the
guix-offload script; it has a max-silent-time option, but doesn't build
anything, it simply copies stuff IIUC.
Should we remove it there as well?
Maxim