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Subject: bug#27157: [PATCH] Re: bug#27157: Building Guile 2.2 "times out"
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2017 15:26:26 +0200
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Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

> 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-ti=
me=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?

No: =E2=80=98guix offload=E2=80=99 gets max-silent-time systematically from=
 its
command-line arguments (it is invoked by guix-daemon).  So this one can
remain as-is.

Ludo=E2=80=99.