How many hours have you wasted staring at emerge's output?

[Bapabooiee]

You know exactly what I'm talking about -- and we're all guilty of it:

When you should be doing other, more productive things while emerge is running, you can't help but become entranced by its build output. So you just sit there, staring at it, until it completes. Or, if it's a large build, you look at its output for the the first few minutes, go off to do other things, but still end-up succumbing to the urge to occasionally check-up on it.

I'm almost completely sure all of us are guilty of doing this to some extent. So, I was thinking, how much of our short, precious time on Earth do you think has been consumed by idling staring at emerge's output?

As for me -- and although I've only been using Gentoo for about seven months -- it's not something I really want to fathom, so I'm content with not knowing.

What say you?

[BradN]

emerge -p: the new TV guide

[kernelOfTruth]

way too much - in the past

now it's only several seconds (or minutes if it's something REALLY big like openoffice) to make sure that it even starts to build

after that I put it (the terminal) to the background, to another virtual desktop or use screen

[RedSquirrel]

I have a fairly good idea how long things will take to build. (genlop helps if I'm unsure.) If it's something short, I'll sit and watch. For longer builds, I will usually set it up and walk away.

I'm not all that concerned about the time spent watching emerge output. Sometimes, I'll sit in front of the oven and watch my food cook.

[poly_poly-man]

none - I have a multitasking operating system.

[dylix]

too many =)

[d2_racing]

Me too

[ppurka]

Haven't looked at emerge output in a long while. I just stare at the countdown timer (see sig)

[John R. Graham]

Wasted?

- John

[disi]

Wasted?

- John

excactly! Two days ago I discovered that my CXXFLAGS weren't set in the make.conf, just by watching the compilation process.

[lightvhawk0]

Enough to make a drinking game, with my buddies.

[jonnevers]

its less fun/interesting/thought-provoking when you use the -q switch to turn off the compile output

[Mike Hunt]

Do other stuff in the mean time configs bash scripts and what not, and it's far less damaging than stupid american TV.

Smille

Cheers,

MH

[hielvc]

Its " white noise " for your eyes. A great way to space out

[bendeguz]

funny topic
right now i'm watching the compile of webkit-gtk and read the gentoo forums

[Mike Hunt]

Its " white noise " for your eyes. A great way to space out

Space out with insomnia for weeks on end when an installation goes bad.

Just wish it wasn't as hot as Texas here. The heat from 8 cores going full speed is always appreciated more in winter.

[Martux]

Its " white noise " for your eyes. A great way to space out

Hell, that reminds me of my old days. I was often getting hypnotized when smoking da herb.
Now I stopped smoking it and use portage-2.2 for a long time. Things are just not the same

[Bio]

I like to run an emerge -e world when I have some friends over for diner.

I can imagine what's going on in their mind when they stare at my screen "wow this dude is a such a geek and he's actually hacking the NASA"

Joke of course

[arnvidr]

Great idea, wonder if I can pipe emerge output to a digital photo frame

[Randy Andy]

I spent also lots of time watching it, and i like it.

But i wish that there exist a kind of "plug-in", to route it into a matrix like screensaver (for console and Gui) which shows the real output of portage, so it would be cool and informative for us.
It should be run optional vertikal like the matrix screensaver, but readable fo us, this would be so cool

Not so boring like the original Matrix screensavers for me. I'm to stupid to decode it in real time, like Keanu did.

But portages output i can read mostely, especially on my slower machines.

Please, can i have it, come one , give it to me, i must have it !!!!

What do you think about this idea, someone who will programm it for us? PLEASE

Regards, Andy.

[Bapabooiee]

Great idea, wonder if I can pipe emerge output to a digital photo frame

Better yet, create a cron daemon that will randomly build packages (with the -B option) so that no human intervention will be required to generate said output. Then have a web application stream its output in real-time so that you can see it no matter what machine you're on.

Hooking it up into a projector and then projecting it onto the side of your house would also be good idea. Nothing beats watching emerge output together with your buds in the backyard while having a barbecue.

Or, hell, you could even project it onto your ceiling, similar to those alarm clocks that show the time that way. Can't sleep? Stare at emerge output until you do.

Better than counting sheep.

[Mike Hunt]

Yes, lets do make those gadgets a reality. Must have them.

I'm like Randy Andy about it.....

Later,

MH

[Kingoftherings]

Wow, and I thought I was the only one.
We need an emerge-starers anonymous.

[devilheart]

almost none (except for very small builds), all my compiling occur at night

[dmpogo]

Way too much