On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 21:42, Eldad Zack wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> 
> I've got an idea to implement package notices, as opposed to
> outputing these important messages to stdout using e{info,warn,error}.
> 
> The idea is VERY simple: write the message to a file (say,
> /var/portage/notices/{P}) and have a utility to read and delete these
> messages. Maybe even build this functionality into etc-config.
> (Maybe mail these messages to a configured address?)
> 
> For ease-of-use I propose adding a simple wrapper command ("enotice" or
> "notice") that would take care of writing into the correct file.
>
> Comments? Ideas?

another idea: simply hand them over to syslog. This way they get mailed
to the admin and are there for later reference.

-- 
Christian Gut <cycloon@is-root.org>