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

[R Hill <dirtyepic.sk@gmail.com>]

Nathan L. Adams wrote:
> Just keep in mind that portage is supposed to be non-interactive and
> most users like it that way. (Although the countdown when cleaning out
> old packages kinda breaks that idea, but I digress.)

This must be some definition of the word interactive i'm not aware of. 
;)  Displaying something on the screen for a user to read is not 
interaction.

> So just make sure that the scheme doesn't involve forcing the user to
> notice anything during a 'normal' non-interactive emerge in order for it
> to be effective. Thats why I keep pushing having a nice GuideXML version
> in a central location like http://errata.g.o/ and just having emerge
> output a summary and a link (however/at what point/with what mechanism
> you decide to actually have portage output it).

Forcing the user to see it is exactly the point.  There are already many 
sources for news that the user can go to.  We don't need another.

And while the idea of having portage give the user a summary and link is 
a step in the right direction, it'd be even nicer if the message itself 
was available without an internet connection (ie. kept in the tree).

--de.

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