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On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:32:47 +0100 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote: |
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| What do you mean "they aren't tied to ebuilds"? I don't really |
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| understand what this feature should do then, it seems. Once again, |
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| what's wrong with reusing emerge --changelog mechanism for displaying |
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| this kind of information? |
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We make changes that have scope other than ebuilds. |
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| I'm not particularly happy with idea of emerge as a newsreader |
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| really, IMHO we should display relevant, vital upgrading information |
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| *when relevant*, not to inform users about upgrades that they are not |
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| interested in in the least. |
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Which is what my proposed GLEP does, at least as far as we can |
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determine automatically. Yes, occasionally this will mean giving, say, |
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mysql 4.1 upgrade instructions to people who plan to use only mysql |
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4.0, but then, if we didn't give them the news, most of them wouldn't |
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know that they don't want to upgrade. |
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And it doesn't turn emerge into a news reader. All portage does is |
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deliver the news. How said news is read is a different issue. |
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| And please, keep the thing simple so that I can be done in reasonable |
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| amount of time and does not follow the destiny of einfo/ewarn logging |
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| (3 years and counting). |
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Of course. Hence why I'm proposing something easy and workable, and not |
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suggesting some magic new framework that will solve all existing |
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problems (including world peace). |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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