Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

[John Myers <electronerd@monolith3d.com>]

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On Tuesday 01 November 2005 02:00, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > Notification that new relevant news items will be displayed via the
> > ``emerge`` tool in a similar way to the existing "configuration files
> > need updating" messages:
> >
> >     * Important: 3 config files in /etc need updating.
> >     * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files.
> >
> >     * Important: there are 5 unread news items.
> >     * Type emerge --help news to learn how to read news files.
>
> Aren't those messages displayed after the damage is done ? Typical use :
>
> - emerge --sync run as a daily cron job
> - emerge -a mysql
> - great, a new version is there. Typing "Yes"
> - system gets borken
> - emerge spits out message saying 14 files need updating and there is 1
> unread news item
>
> I'm probably missing something here. Please elaborate on how this GLEP
> meets the "Preemptive" design goal...
The "configuration files need updating" messages also appear at the end of 
emerge sync

Also, perhaps the news messages could be put at both ends of the emerge 
output?

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