Bug 467216

Summary:	sys-apps/pv: Replace sys-apps/usleep with app-admin/killproc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) <ssuominen>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	467212

Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-04-25 14:36:08 UTC

I made a stupid mistake by adding the separate usleep command to Portage. I didn't realize the correct usleep command is already in the tree as part of the app-admin/killproc suite.

Please fix pv's ebuild to reference app-admin/killproc instead of sys-apps/usleep so I can remove usleep from portage.

Bug 467212

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-04-25 15:33:57 UTC

I've just gone and removed the faux dependency altogether. First of all, no one knows that installing something providing usleep will make a certain test in the pv package run slightly faster. I could add a notice in src_test() to make that clear, but without a usleep command, instead of a fifth of a second, the test will now wait a full second.

Instead of 3 seconds, tests/019-remote-cksum now takes 15 seconds. That's excluding the initial 2 second nap before that particular test even begins, so overall, useless sleep has gone up from 5 seconds to 17 seconds. :)