On May 24, 2012 5:19 AM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 23 May 2012 22:54:23 +0100 > Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote: >
[znip] > > Did either of you ever open a bug about this or even discuss it in the > > gentoo-dev mailing list? What you say sounds like a valid concern to > > me but unless you express your needs to maintainers, nothing is ever > > going to happen. However, in this particular case, yes a news item > > would be the ideal solution. > > > I haven't opened a bug myself, mostly because I've never been bitten > by this. My Gentoo servers run stable so I've always known from this > list and other places when something requiring a reboot is coming down > the line. > +1 I love this list :-) In my previous place, I have one 'experimental' server which gets updated before all others. It's the 'designated fall guy'. Which reminds me of Project Management 101: What's the first thing you must do before embarking on a project? Answer: Designate a fall guy and prepare implicating evidences. ;-) > I agree, a news item is the perfect solution. Having portage do it will > be highly cumbersome, it will require some kind of new magic flag in > ebuilds that portage must parse. All that work for something that > doesn't happen often? Nah, it'll never fly. > Also a heartfelt +1 for this. That said, I'm going to repost this 'news' to the Gentoo-server list, unless someone beats me to it. Rgds,
