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 1Hkjqt-00004i-MB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 May 2007 16:44:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l46GhvGq031164; Sun, 6 May 2007 16:43:57 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 l46GeeBX026025 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 16:40:41 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718C58D30C for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 18:04:50 +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 11295-08 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 18:04:45 +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 EE96B8D305 for ; Sun, 6 May 2007 18:04:44 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 17:39:32 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 news item for review: Radiant upgrade Message-ID: <20070506173932.40a68ed9@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <1178468829.18768.11.camel@ip6-localhost> References: <1178433936.13701.10.camel@ip6-localhost> <20070506163333.6461c946@snowflake> <1178466564.17854.3.camel@ip6-localhost> <20070506165151.55c182b6@snowflake> <1178468829.18768.11.camel@ip6-localhost> 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_b21FjLJMfzMDY8BXHu386My; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: 6ecc223f-78fa-4464-be03-d65bdd516d88 X-Archives-Hash: b1f66c314315549abffb870858d27d49 --Sig_b21FjLJMfzMDY8BXHu386My Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 06 May 2007 18:27:09 +0200 Hans de Graaff wrote: > I'm afraid that many users will have forgotten by the time the upgrade > is actually possible for them, especially when this period is longer > than a month. It feels a bit like crying wolf to me: "here's a bunch > of changes you'll need to deal with at some point on the future, but > you can't have them now and we don't know when they'll be ready, and > if they are ready we won't warn you again" It's not like the news item disappears completely after you read it. > To me it seems to make more sense to show the message when the upgrade > it actually available. Then you're looking for a different feature. Probably the one that's designed to do configuration checks after --pretend... pkg_pretend_post or whatever it was going to be called. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_b21FjLJMfzMDY8BXHu386My Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGPgTG96zL6DUtXhERAhUUAJ0XGtudneqHlxcSn/77uNaI2VljcQCfWyO7 LLR0EAPTX7jRWU/VBXeLwrU= =d0DI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_b21FjLJMfzMDY8BXHu386My-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list