Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 news item for review: Radiant upgrade

[Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 17:27 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> > If either the news item is shown once, it is bad because the user
> > might forget about if until that package actually hits the stable
> > branch.
> 
> The 'eselect news' module that ships with Paludis solves that problem.

I'm not familiar with either Paludis or the eselect news module. Could
you please explain in a few sentences how this problem is solved?

> 
> > The only solution I currently see is an additional field in the
> > header, a change in behaviour and therefore the GLEP itself.
> > In particular, this field could be my previous understanding 
> > of "Display-If-Upgrading-From-To" namely
> > "Display-Before-Upgrading-From-To" which would fit the requirements
> > defined by the GLEP:
> 
> It doesn't fit the preemptive requirement. That wouldn't be preemptive,
> it would be last minute. One of the reasons for the GLEP is to remove
> the need for last-minute pkg_setup die notices.

My intention would be to show these right after 'emerge --sync' or
'emerge --pretend', not when the package is about to be merged.

Hans

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