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

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:39:24 +0100 Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org> wrote:
| Uhm... emerge sync is a *bad* time to display upgrade messages, it's
| simply irrelevant at that time, I'm not upgrading anything at the
| moment and might not be upgrading for next week or so.

It doesn't display the messages. It displays a note saying "you have
unread news items".

| The messages should be displayed when I'm about to upgrade an ebuild
| which has an upgrade note associated with the new version. Sending
| mail via cron might be a nice optional feature for those who want to
| use it.

Not really a good idea, a) because news items aren't tied directly to
ebuilds, and b) because people like advance warning of "when you
upgrade Apache, all hell will break loose!" rather than having it
sprung on them suddenly when they're trying to do a quick update.
Getting the news item in advance allows for planning.

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