[Slackbuilds-users] Source code missing for some Slackbuilds scripts

[B. Watson]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025, Jim wrote:

> I think you missed or forgot about the discussion of "interrupts
> vs. polling" in your computer architecture and/or OS classes.  :-)

People aren't computers though...

> I would much rather get interrupted by an email telling me I should/could
> update a package than spend my time polling one or more web sites to see if
> there is some issue.
>
> YMMV.

My mileage does vary... I don't want to be interrupted when doing
something else. I'll poll for updates when I decide it's time to work
on SBo stuff. When I'm busy doing something else, there's no need to
know that a build needs updating (I'm not gonna work on it because I'm
already busy).

Anyway, any polling process can be turned into an interrupt one by
running it periodically and emailing the result to your address. We
got this handy cron daemon in Slackware...