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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:12:55
Message-Id: 200511011507.55761.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting by Jakub Moc
1 On Tuesday 01 November 2005 13:39, Jakub Moc wrote:
2 > Uhm... emerge sync is a *bad* time to display upgrade messages, it's
3 > simply irrelevant at that time, I'm not upgrading anything at the
4 > moment and might not be upgrading for next week or so.
5
6 If you are not upgrading anything the news is not relevant for you anyway.
7 The news is to accompany changes to the tree.
8
9 > The messages should be displayed when I'm about to upgrade an ebuild
10 > which has an upgrade note associated with the new version. Sending mail
11 > via cron might be a nice optional feature for those who want to use it.
12
13 I agree that it might be usefull to allways declare the related
14 package(s). Even when the message is not restricted to them.
15
16 Paul
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