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On Sun, 06 May 2007 18:27:09 +0200 |
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Hans de Graaff <graaff@g.o> wrote: |
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> I'm afraid that many users will have forgotten by the time the upgrade |
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> is actually possible for them, especially when this period is longer |
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> than a month. It feels a bit like crying wolf to me: "here's a bunch |
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> of changes you'll need to deal with at some point on the future, but |
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> you can't have them now and we don't know when they'll be ready, and |
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> if they are ready we won't warn you again" |
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It's not like the news item disappears completely after you read it. |
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> To me it seems to make more sense to show the message when the upgrade |
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> it actually available. |
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Then you're looking for a different feature. Probably the one that's |
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designed to do configuration checks after --pretend... pkg_pretend_post |
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or whatever it was going to be called. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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