On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:05:49PM -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > Recent discussion on this ML and on the portage-ml as well as > #gentoo-portage regarding pkg_warn() and the basic concept behind it. > We talked about adding new functionality, about adding a warning section > to the ebuild or to the metadata. However. all of these tend to have > problems.
> The dev won't write the extra function,
In your proposal this would be "the dev won't write the extra changelog
content" and ...
> duplication of data in pkg_{post/pre}inst,
... "duplication of data in Changelog/pkg_post".
> mangling of metadata.xml.
I don't know what this means, but I don't think pkg_warn has this
problem.
So I don't see any advantage of putting it in the changelog. I actually
like the pkg_warn idea much better.
So tell me again, what does your proposal solve of the problems you see
with pkg_warn?
Regards,
Maurice.
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