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 1EWx9H-00058a-QG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:30:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA1ERZ6l017229; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:27:35 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 jA1ENhwE024691 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:23:43 GMT Received: from netswarm.net ([212.55.200.138]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EWx39-0004Wy-C7 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:23:43 +0000 Received: from netswarm.net (joker@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netswarm.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jA1ENfVV001032 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:23:41 +0100 Received: (from joker@localhost) by netswarm.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id jA1ENfF1001031 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:23:41 +0100 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:23:41 +0100 From: Christian Birchinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Message-ID: <20051101142341.GA955@netswarm.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <20051101145451.5f3c376d@thelair.ynet.sk> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051101145451.5f3c376d@thelair.ynet.sk> X-Accepted-File-Formats: ASCII, .ps, .rtf, .pdf - *NO* Micosoft Office files please X-Info: No HTML mails please. text/plain is the official email format Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 5e8d1b8a-db45-4e5f-9408-495e6f1895e3 X-Archives-Hash: 5c5f6d446358e843234600d6a9d57108 On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:54:51PM +0100, Andrej Kacian wrote: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 01:51:25 +0000 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > The attached GLEP is a draft proposal for the emerge --news thing that's > > been under discussion. There are still some TODO items. These are calls > > for people to weigh in with suggestions. Of course, suggestions on other > > items are good too... > > Before this, make pre-install and post-install emerge messages more usable, > instead of having them lost among thousands of gibberish text in batch emerges. > I always ask myself what's wrong with doing a simple "if" statement before displaying infos, warnings or errors which don't affect the current installaion. No one complained when i started doing that ages ago in bash-completion. I don't mean huge and resource hungry tests. But why tell the user that he should remove a file in /etc with einfo when it doesn't even exist? (That's just an example) Some ebuilds do this now, but most still broadcast (sometimes huge) text floods. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list