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 1HkjiS-0001vN-Iw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 May 2007 16:36:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l46GXBiJ012628; Sun, 6 May 2007 16:33:11 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 l46GSmal004771 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 16:28:48 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F9A8D30C for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 17:52:57 +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 11261-07 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 17:52:52 +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 BEC8E8D305 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 17:52:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 17:27:39 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 news item for review: Radiant upgrade Message-ID: <20070506172739.72408e01@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <200705061820.31126.expose@luftgetrock.net> References: <1178433936.13701.10.camel@ip6-localhost> <1178466564.17854.3.camel@ip6-localhost> <20070506165151.55c182b6@snowflake> <200705061820.31126.expose@luftgetrock.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_Bxce1_3RuMLmGQsnLCv1f6j; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: 5d0ff761-3216-442e-9a85-188202d08a18 X-Archives-Hash: e69a1f66c373f5840301085141b3d030 --Sig_Bxce1_3RuMLmGQsnLCv1f6j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 6 May 2007 18:20:31 +0200 expose@luftgetrock.net wrote: > > Thus giving them lots of notice, which is one of the things the GLEP > > was designed to do. > > If either the news item is shown once, it is bad because the user > might forget about if until that package actually hits the stable > branch. The 'eselect news' module that ships with Paludis solves that problem. > The only solution I currently see is an additional field in the > header, a change in behaviour and therefore the GLEP itself. > In particular, this field could be my previous understanding=20 > of "Display-If-Upgrading-From-To" namely > "Display-Before-Upgrading-From-To" which would fit the requirements > defined by the GLEP: It doesn't fit the preemptive requirement. That wouldn't be preemptive, it would be last minute. One of the reasons for the GLEP is to remove the need for last-minute pkg_setup die notices. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_Bxce1_3RuMLmGQsnLCv1f6j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGPgH996zL6DUtXhERApZ1AJ9PxmXaDYhceEKfhtdR3lDEIc1btACgy+Ye PlmQ/jAtPZ26fi1NTXZC+G8= =+Izj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_Bxce1_3RuMLmGQsnLCv1f6j-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list