On Thursday 14 of April 2011 13:32:04 Kfir Lavi wrote:
> When i run world update, I usually don't really check all the written stuff.
>
> If I do this, I'm sure a lot more Gentoo users do the same.
> So do expect people rebooting the machine without checking what your have
> wrote.
> This can be a major headache if you have few systems that are doing auto
> updates.
> I would solve this issue by stopping the emerge and getting the attention of
> the user.
> If I don't get the attention of the user, no openrc will be installed.
> It should be something like emerge -C ... 1 .2 3 4 5...
>
> To conclude, you can't issue such a change without proper confirmation from
> the user.
>
This was discussed multiple times, news items are to be read.
Users ignore elog informations/web announcements/... so it was agreed that
news item is agressive enough to user so they must read it.
If they don't do so it is just their fault.
And no runtime changing for portage where it expect some input is seriously
stupid idea, most of us script updates in batch and noone would actualy read
it.

Never the less as I said we expect user to read that stuff and if he does not
he is on his own due to his dumb approach.
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