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2011/4/14 Thomas Beierlein <tomjbe@g.o> |
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> On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:51:55 +0200 |
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> Tomá? Chvátal <scarabeus@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 14 of April 2011 13:32:04 Kfir Lavi wrote: |
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> > > When i run world update, I usually don't really check all the |
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> > > written stuff. |
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> > > |
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> > > If I do this, I'm sure a lot more Gentoo users do the same. |
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> > > So do expect people rebooting the machine without checking what |
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> > > your have wrote. |
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> > > This can be a major headache if you have few systems that are doing |
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> > > auto updates. |
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> > > I would solve this issue by stopping the emerge and getting the |
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> > > attention of the user. |
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> > > If I don't get the attention of the user, no openrc will be |
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> > > installed. It should be something like emerge -C ... 1 .2 3 4 5... |
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> > > |
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> > > To conclude, you can't issue such a change without proper |
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> > > confirmation from the user. |
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> > > |
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> > This was discussed multiple times, news items are to be read. |
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> > Users ignore elog informations/web announcements/... so it was agreed |
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> > that news item is agressive enough to user so they must read it. |
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> > If they don't do so it is just their fault. |
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> > And no runtime changing for portage where it expect some input is |
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> > seriously stupid idea, most of us script updates in batch and noone |
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> > would actualy read it. |
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> > Never the less as I said we expect user to read that stuff and if he |
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> > does not he is on his own due to his dumb approach. |
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> Maybe we should underline our intention by having that policy |
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> documented in the installation handbook. A good place may be section 2 |
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> "Working with |
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> Gentoo" (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2). |
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> At least all newbies will stumble upon it once. |
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> Regards, |
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> Thomas. |
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Yeah, before the stabilization of OpenRc and Baselayout 2.x, the Gentoo |
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handbook really need to be updated too. |
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I don't see how a newbie should be able to install his box with an outdated |
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handbook. |
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Salut |
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alp |
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Sylvain |