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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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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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