[pacman-dev] [feature request] Ring terminal bell on prompt

[Eric Toombs]

On a slow connection, those repo syncs can take quite a while, and on a
slow computer, dependency calculations can also take quite a while.
There have been many times when I have been faced with both. Actually,
even on a fast computer, dependency calculations can take quite a while
when there's a full system upgrade on a system that hasn't been upgraded
in a while. My patch is ready and will follow this email.

On 2015-11-14 19:56, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 15/11/15 10:41, Eric Toombs wrote:
>> Fair enough, Allan. I'll get on that when I have the time.
>>
>> On 2015-10-17 09:22, Allan McRae wrote:
>>> On 16/10/15 14:26, Eric Toombs wrote:
>>>> (copied from here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41188 The attachment
>>>> is there too. I made it a while ago, so that's why I called 4.1.2 current.)
>>>>
>>>> I have implemented a boolean option '--bell' that when enabled, causes
>>>> pacman to ring the terminal bell when there is user input required. I
>>>> find this tremendously helpful when there are long delays between user
>>>> input and I am busy doing other things at the same time. Let me know
>>>> what you think.
>>>>
>>>> The patch is attached. It applies to the src/pacman folder of the
>>>> current (4.1.2) release.
>>>>
>>> It is not a feature that I would ever use, but I'll have no objections
>>> if it is submitted with documentation update (man page).
>>>
>
> As an added question...   when is there long delays to user input?
> User input generally happens right after the repos are downloaded, which
> should not be a long delay.
>
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