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[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 25, 2012, at 05:02, Rainer Müller wrote:

> On 2012-03-23 03:35, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
>> 
>> Do we really want to be responsible for energy saver settings, which will
>> require sudo for people not using a root-installed MacPorts?
> 
> There has to be a way to control this from user space API, as the video players
> given as example above allow to stop the display going blank and prevent system
> sleep. However, I assume this would require interfacing with Cocoa API?

https://trac.macports.org/ticket/33719

It's just a single shell command we need to run (e.g. when starting any port command); it stays running, and we'd kill it when we want normal sleep scheduling to resume (e.g. when the port command exits).