On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:14 PM, James Rayner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I don't really know what to think here. I had looked at that messages >> one for a long time and thought it was a decent idea, but never went >> far enough to take it and run with it. >> >> @Loui- sure, but this is for extraordinary messages- a lot more >> exclusive than ChangeLog-worthy stuff, and you have to explicitly >> request to see that anyway. >> >> @Jeff- it isn't exactly straightforward to view an install script >> beforehand, and the post_install business is a rather hacky reason for >> needing an install script. >> >> -Dan >> > > Dan's got the idea... > > pacman should not break someone's system without at least telling them > first. So yes - this is intended for more extraordinary messages. > > The current ways of informing the user (homepage/forum news and > post-install) are broken and non-simple: > - both polling based oh, and post-install is after the fact - when the system is broken, so it's not a very good way of informing the user that their system "will break" because it's already broken.
Anyway, I'm all for a more generalised/ideal setup, but that's been wanted for a while with no patches coming forward.
