-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 12:26 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >>On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:16:03 +0100 Thierry Carrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>wrote: >>| For them to know about it, they need to be warned when they do their >>| "emerge -p world" or "emerge -a mysql" that the upgrade is not as easy >>| as it seems. People using a cron job to sync are probably a >>| significant part of our user base... >> >>Have Portage give a red flashy before emerge if there're unread news >>items? > > Or have it die unless they have > I_LIKE_A_BROKEN_SYSTEM_PLEASE_IGNORE_NEWS="yes" in make.conf.... ;] > >>Although, a better solution for users who cron sync would be to have >>said cron mail them all the relevant news files... > > We don't have control over what they do in cron, we do have control over > portage itself. >
The cron thing is a *really* good idea. Its so good that its an example in the Gentoo Cron How-to. A few developers actively debugging the sync process might enjoy watching the output of a sync scroll by, but normal/sane people have better things to do. (Note: I'm not bashing Chris's statement here; I honestly don't know what point he was trying to make). So don't implement the --news thing in such a way that in the future a developer might be tempted to tell a complaining user "whats the matter with you? don't you read the output when you sync? no? what a loser; no wonder your system is b0rked." (or something to that effect) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDarFQ2QTTR4CNEQARAgWDAJ0cW1xpOKCy+jjaYCoGBbfOOXSGwwCgojNk flBm0MnXXXRLsBGC3XXcYts= =1Ls9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
