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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 12:26 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:16:03 +0100 Thierry Carrez <koon@g.o> |
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>>wrote: |
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>>| For them to know about it, they need to be warned when they do their |
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>>| "emerge -p world" or "emerge -a mysql" that the upgrade is not as easy |
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>>| as it seems. People using a cron job to sync are probably a |
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>>| significant part of our user base... |
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>>Have Portage give a red flashy before emerge if there're unread news |
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>>items? |
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> Or have it die unless they have |
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> I_LIKE_A_BROKEN_SYSTEM_PLEASE_IGNORE_NEWS="yes" in make.conf.... ;] |
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>>Although, a better solution for users who cron sync would be to have |
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>>said cron mail them all the relevant news files... |
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> We don't have control over what they do in cron, we do have control over |
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> portage itself. |
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The cron thing is a *really* good idea. Its so good that its an example |
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in the Gentoo Cron How-to. A few developers actively debugging the sync |
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process might enjoy watching the output of a sync scroll by, but |
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normal/sane people have better things to do. (Note: I'm not bashing |
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Chris's statement here; I honestly don't know what point he was trying |
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to make). |
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So don't implement the --news thing in such a way that in the future a |
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developer might be tempted to tell a complaining user "whats the matter |
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with you? don't you read the output when you sync? no? what a loser; no |
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wonder your system is b0rked." (or something to that effect) |
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