From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QANoG-00072l-UX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:46:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 045051C0C4; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:45:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5043E1C0AD for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:44:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so1080835gxk.40 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:44:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=6Wg2nTHiGwwl6Zy6spW9rfjNfBwYmUbqwCNo03rAz/w=; b=GyrSBiMW7MAcyRvFz8bBAtqc7SqSjyJDvJ21nx+dQdiRn7WJg6VSBAb5WpsWQIPGrs 2YK9ZQdYykx2qACPVVue7HSIyn7p+G+/JwzT5K/pm19Y0koEVxnkUoYLWcCjDLjW9M9F lLThuw/d9Tjgtc99kSU1eAkJSF09kP3YTSWBE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=px5DxTqUcUmN+bWoVTZhDWEXXEfuaurUaqvu99jW2K/GLWw2hElp9P2OCdZzWhLVjp K0w3stro0+uTb9/osIN+2XifoQqb9DxJi8EGuS48ttD+3j6HdX9pgJGo9HB9g/07azK5 NTaXbqCqEWEWFOg+GQU/aqI77q1ll48RxEn7Q= Received: by 10.150.11.5 with SMTP id 5mr1821605ybk.29.1302792292721; Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-118-199.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.118.199]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q29sm856987yba.2.2011.04.14.07.44.50 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DA70861.1060909@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:44:49 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.18) Gecko/20110325 Gentoo/2.0.13 SeaMonkey/2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: openrc portage news item References: <20110413181538.GA2894@linux1> <20110413195647.GA3116@linux1> <4DA68664.8090104@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3e07f1a24b2cd5157ff6d904d7d23fcc Duncan wrote: > > > From my read, while it does actually say it's important, the politeness > with which it does so don't well convey the true importance and urgency of > the situation. > > If there's a fire, you don't say "Please, excuse me for interrupting, but > there's a fire and at your convenience, please make your way to the > exit." Rather, it's "*FIRE*! Please STAY CALM. WALK DON'T RUN. The > exit is OVER THERE. Make your way to it IMMEDIATELY!" > > So more along the lines of: > > """ > After installing these packages, please DO NOT REBOOT > until you follow the upgrade guide located at > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml. > > If you do not follow the guide as soon as possible after > these packages are upgraded and you reboot or crash > without doing so, the system will likely fail to > boot properly, and you may be looking at some time in > manual recovery mode to fix it. > """ > > Yes, the DO NOT REBOOT is shouting, not exactly polite, > but that's arguably what's called for in this situation. > > Plus having it in all caps makes it stand out. If a person even looks at the message, they will see that at least. Then hopefully, they will read the rest. I think bold would be nice to tho. It's not like this is not really really important. Even with that, I see a few people not even noticing it and the next reboot going badly. Dale :-) :-)