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On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 22:50:42 +0100 |
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Jan Kundrát <jkt@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Friday 04 of November 2005 02:50 Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> > After reading through the heated thread, I have yet to see your |
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> > valid point of pushing xml for such a simple task. All I have seen |
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> > is two 3rd grade kids arguing over a swing set. Please give some |
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> > calm reasons for your opinion instead of voicing things in such a |
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> > heated manner. Making assumptions about someone else's opinions |
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> > gets you no where. |
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> Well, my point is that our GLSAs and the associated code already |
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> handles stuff very similar to the `emerge --news` idea, namely: |
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> a) displaying info only for users having affected package |
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> b) support for arch-specific issues |
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> c) version-specific messages |
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> d) instructions on how to make a workaround and how to fix the |
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> problem permanently |
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All of these steps are more or less trivial, there is little to no gain |
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in reusing glsa related code. Moving the relevant code from glsa.py to |
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some other location would be more work that rewriting these parts. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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