From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EWh7Z-0006ls-Vw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:23:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9VLMUOS013500; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:22:30 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9VLKEHB018215 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:20:14 GMT Received: from cpe-65-26-255-237.wi.res.rr.com ([65.26.255.237] helo=nightcrawler) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EWh4f-0003a3-6N for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:20:13 +0000 Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:19:50 -0600 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users Message-ID: <20051031211949.GA8373@nightcrawler> References: <200510301642.39469.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <4364EC47.8050803@gentoo.org> <1130722932.8550.33.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <1130768528.26789.70.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <43662CD9.2000405@gentoo.org> <1130777404.10549.16.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <436651B8.2020108@gentoo.org> <1130785533.10547.41.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <20051031200727.GA6968@valinor.wadham.ox.ac.uk> <82e554630510311256q6af11c0asac769c68b96d4871@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <82e554630510311256q6af11c0asac769c68b96d4871@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: b7b24ca3-0bcb-44f9-b508-088cb9ae4060 X-Archives-Hash: f6e5d65ab79c0bf045aaf6095961c332 --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 03:56:08PM -0500, Dave Shanker wrote: > What about Portage auto generating a upgrade file > (/usr/portage/notices (like it does with it's cache) and then > providing a notice at the end of an emerge than lets the user know > it's there and how to read it. We could even provide a switch in > portage to read the file and display the notices (emerge > --readnotice). I suggest y'all work out how you're going to push news, news items,=20 how it's going to be filterable for those who don't want to see php,=20 etc, rather then talking about emerge doing differing things... emerge --news sounds nice and fluffy without getting into the=20 questions above, where it's going to be shoved into the tree (how it's=20 going to work for remote trees), etc. ~harring --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDZop1vdBxRoA3VU0RAoRwAJ41aK7u2jCsnx16k9/BF5UpDHLAgACfZlhW RkSYGe50hiPvdHQq6XoZv6Q= =EDph -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list