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Duncan wrote: |
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> > From my read, while it does actually say it's important, the politeness |
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> with which it does so don't well convey the true importance and urgency of |
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> the situation. |
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> If there's a fire, you don't say "Please, excuse me for interrupting, but |
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> there's a fire and at your convenience, please make your way to the |
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> exit." Rather, it's "*FIRE*! Please STAY CALM. WALK DON'T RUN. The |
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> exit is OVER THERE. Make your way to it IMMEDIATELY!" |
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> So more along the lines of: |
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> """ |
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> After installing these packages, please DO NOT REBOOT |
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> until you follow the upgrade guide located at |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml. |
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> If you do not follow the guide as soon as possible after |
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> these packages are upgraded and you reboot or crash |
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> without doing so, the system will likely fail to |
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> boot properly, and you may be looking at some time in |
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> manual recovery mode to fix it. |
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> """ |
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> Yes, the DO NOT REBOOT is shouting, not exactly polite, |
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> but that's arguably what's called for in this situation. |
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Plus having it in all caps makes it stand out. If a person even looks |
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at the message, they will see that at least. Then hopefully, they will |
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read the rest. I think bold would be nice to tho. It's not like this |
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is not really really important. |
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Even with that, I see a few people not even noticing it and the next |
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reboot going badly. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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