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On Sat, 5 May 2007 00:52:46 +0100 |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:48:19 -0400 |
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> Dan Meltzer <hydrogen@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > That seems like a really bad road to go down. |
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> > Would it not be better to extend elog to alert people at the end of |
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> > an install as well? |
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> Doesn't help. It's only there once, and it's easy to ignore. Users |
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> don't have to explicitly mark it as read, so it's frequently not read. |
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> elog is not an adequate solution. |
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Interesting that so far nobody (including yourself) has requested such a |
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feature ... |
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Also GLEP42 (as specified) is also an inadequate solution as there is |
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no check for news items _after_ a package install, so in the typical |
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use case users won't see this news item when it's most relevant (going |
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by specification, haven't checked implementations). |
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And given that the GLEP specifically states that news items are not |
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suposed to replace the usual postinst einfo/elog messages I'm tempted to |
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call this an abuse of the news framework. |
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Marius |
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-- |
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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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