This patch for Gentoo Portage adds support for sound notification on some events.

See http://chuso.net/?id=82 for more info.

TODO:

  * Check if PLAY_CMD command exists

  * Check if SOUND_* files exist

  * Maybe convert it to a portage module instead of a patch

--- /usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge	2008-10-13 14:00:13.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/lib/portage/bin/emerge	2008-10-31 19:02:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -165,6 +165,11 @@
 	elif colours is None:
 		colours=[bold]
 	colours=(colours*len(responses))[:len(responses)]
+
+	playcmd = get_play_cmd("ASK")
+	if playcmd is not None:
+		os.popen(playcmd)
+
 	print bold(prompt),
 	try:
 		while True:
@@ -4887,8 +4892,13 @@
 
 	if retval == os.EX_OK:
 		exit_msg = " *** exiting successfully."
+		sound = "SUCCESS"
 	else:
 		exit_msg = " *** exiting unsuccessfully with status '%s'." % retval
+		sound = "FAILURE"
+	playcmd = get_play_cmd(sound)
+	if playcmd is not None:
+		os.popen(playcmd)
 	emergelog("notitles" not in settings.features, exit_msg)
 
 	# Dump the mod_echo output now so that our other notifications are shown
@@ -6625,6 +6635,19 @@
 		settings["NOCOLOR"] = "true"
 		settings.backup_changes("NOCOLOR")
 
+def get_play_cmd(sound):
+	settings, trees, mtimedb = load_emerge_config()
+
+	if settings["PLAY_CMD"]:
+		playcmd = settings["PLAY_CMD"]
+	else:
+		playcmd = "play"
+
+	if settings["SOUND_" + sound]:
+		return playcmd + " " + settings["SOUND_" + sound]
+	else:
+		return None
+
 def emerge_main():
 	# Disable color until we're sure that it should be enabled (after
 	# EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS has been parsed).