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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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> > 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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> > 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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