l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...]
>>> At any rate, it would be good to remove ‘max-silent-time’ from all the >>> ‘%default-options’ variables, for consistency. >>> >>> Ludo’. >> >> 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 ‘max-silent-time’ from > all the ‘%default-options’? 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
