Salvador Pardiñas writes:
This patch adds a last-system update timelog to the database, checks the
Arch Linux RSS feed for any possible manual interventions added since
the last update time, and logs them so the user can keep them in mind.
pacman is not an Arch Linux specific tool, so this patch will not be
accepted.
Would it be accepted if the source feed and matching text could be configured
instead of being hardcoded? So that other distributions could point it at
their equivalent source of important news.
This feels like a lot of code for something which should probably be done
through someone's RSS reader, web browser, or just through subscribing to
arch-announce. Making it completely generic makes the code that has to be
maintained even more burdensome. Reimplementing this existing functionality in
pacman rather than using existing tools built for this purpose seems less than
ideal.
(I'd suggest sending an RFC in future so that the concept can be discussed
first for new features, then you can get opinions on the concept before writing
code.)
