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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
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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To: Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:

[...]

>>> At any rate, it would be good to remove =E2=80=98max-silent-time=E2=80=
=99 from all the
>>> =E2=80=98%default-options=E2=80=99 variables, for consistency.
>>>
>>> Ludo=E2=80=99.
>>
>> 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 =E2=80=98max-silent-tim=
e=E2=80=99 from
> all the =E2=80=98%default-options=E2=80=99?

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