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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HkKcf-0006LD-Jy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 13:48:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l45DkU7P025105; Sat, 5 May 2007 13:46:30 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l45DfRPv016105 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 13:41:27 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA3C8D30C for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 15:07:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 19016-08 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 15:07:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from snowflake (unknown [62.6.163.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 622C78D305 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 15:07:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 14:40:30 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24 Message-ID: <20070505144030.3afecf74@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <20070505152821.19f612f3@sheridan.genone.homeip.net> References: <200705042249.48267.peper@gentoo.org> <200705041850.00514.hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> <20070504235844.136fd6cf@snowflake> <200705041948.19737.hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> <20070505005246.18a8fe84@snowflake> <20070505103040.44dfdc4c@sheridan.genone.homeip.net> <20070505134632.7c0ed334@snowflake> <20070505152821.19f612f3@sheridan.genone.homeip.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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="Sig_y=V7INl5DK6TQZ269Zn7rk7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: e2130973-0843-4d55-8941-b730f8339e5e X-Archives-Hash: 3fb934335dd12ac813040c5c4e2ca148 --Sig_y=V7INl5DK6TQZ269Zn7rk7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 5 May 2007 15:28:21 +0200 Marius Mauch wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2007 13:46:32 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:30:40 +0200 > > Marius Mauch wrote: > > > And given that the GLEP specifically states that news items are > > > not suposed to replace the usual postinst einfo/elog messages I'm > > > tempted to call this an abuse of the news framework. > >=20 > > The usual postinst messages are inadequate for this situation. >=20 > Actually I agree - an automatic update would be adequate here. An automatic update would have to go through the home directory for every single user. It's not a viable solution. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_y=V7INl5DK6TQZ269Zn7rk7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGPIlQ96zL6DUtXhERAi3PAJ4mupHi6fE+jckf8iUJBSjfeyRK5gCghAyb KuzCZ2SGH5BFMEeRXrTKro8= =9Q0t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_y=V7INl5DK6TQZ269Zn7rk7-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list