Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:05:45 -0500 "Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@××××.org>
wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 19:45:08 -0500 "Nathan L. Adams"
| > <nadams@××××.org>
| > wrote:
| > | Just keep in mind that portage is supposed to be non-interactive
| > | and most users like it that way. (Although the countdown when
| > | cleaning out old packages kinda breaks that idea, but I digress.)
| > 
| > You really should give the GLEP a read. It's quite nice, you know...
| > 
| 
| Your explanations hint at interacting with portage during an emerge.
| Specifically you floated the idea of having emerge print a red flashy
| message before doing the emerge. *That* is what I was commenting on.

Ever noticed any of the other red flashies that emerge gives? For
example, if you try emerge -C glibc? Doesn't break the non-interactive
requirement, it's just yet another way of shoving something in the
user's face if they somehow ignore all the normal warnings.

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