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 1EWtI3-00049z-7Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:22:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA1ALgle018781; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:21:42 GMT Received: from smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.67]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA1AJ5sI020225 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:19:06 GMT Received: from [64.161.56.37] (helo=sarge.electronerdia.net) by smtpauth07.mail.atl.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EWtEP-0005mg-9Y for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:19:05 -0500 Received: from sheila.electronerdia.net (sheila.electronerdia.net [192.168.1.32]) by sarge.electronerdia.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A865FF1EE for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:21:49 -0800 (PST) From: John Myers To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 03:23:23 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <43673CB6.1010907@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <43673CB6.1010907@gentoo.org> 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; boundary="nextPart6949319.E9IUFEMMOL"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511010323.28369.electronerd@monolith3d.com> X-ELNK-Trace: 8839a2c17b2169aa1aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79b6a1dd6b523ffffebddb48cb814d456e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 64.161.56.37 X-Archives-Salt: a3de2a66-1a08-4e2d-8b50-7de33763da9a X-Archives-Hash: d964bc9c6c6cb3d73f20dd212cad5f59 --nextPart6949319.E9IUFEMMOL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 emerge sync Also, perhaps the news messages could be put at both ends of the emerge=20 output? --nextPart6949319.E9IUFEMMOL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDZ1Aw61oU2vmzgqgRAsa9AKCdy6Q/livcZ7zxPfZAlKYxaT68RwCfQYsP YMey+SH+ctfnmFVLrsH0MNQ= =OpDZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6949319.E9IUFEMMOL-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list