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

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 22:50:42 +0100
Jan Kundrát <jkt@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Friday 04 of November 2005 02:50 Lance Albertson wrote:
> > After reading through the heated thread, I have yet to see your
> > valid point of pushing xml for such a simple task. All I have seen
> > is two 3rd grade kids arguing over a swing set. Please give some
> > calm reasons for your opinion instead of voicing things in such a
> > heated manner. Making assumptions about someone else's opinions
> > gets you no where.
> 
> Well, my point is that our GLSAs and the associated code already
> handles stuff very similar to the `emerge --news` idea, namely:
> 
> a) displaying info only for users having affected package
> b) support for arch-specific issues
> c) version-specific messages
> d) instructions on how to make a workaround and how to fix the
> problem permanently

All of these steps are more or less trivial, there is little to no gain
in reusing glsa related code. Moving the relevant code from glsa.py to
some other location would be more work that rewriting these parts.

Marius

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