Dhruba Bandopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 1) Eliminate all use of sleep in ebuilds
> 2) Eliminate all use of beeps via echo -ne "\a"
> 3) Write eclasses or modifications to portage which control logging
> and display - I have even written a bash wrapper (unfinished) around
> emerge which does log all output and displays all messages at end of
> every emerge separated according to package names.
> 4) If there absolutely has to be sound it must be done through
> FEATURES="sound".  FEATURES="notify" can be used for message waits if
> absolutely necessary.  It's a shame that finally EULA's have made
> ebuilds interactive and sound and message waits are further increasing
> merge time

I would like to add

5) Eliminate escape strings that affect xterm titles from emerge.

I now find myself doing

$ TERM=vt100 emerge ...

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