Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Conveying important upgrade messages to user community
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:45:05
Message-Id: 1100709902.16697.1.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Conveying important upgrade messages to user community by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 09:23 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:06 +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
3 > > non-developer lurker here: how about (optionally) the user sets an email
4 > > address in make.conf and gets emailed really important earth shattering
5 > > stuff. maybe a new function in ebuilds like:
6 > >
7 > > eemailwarn "you need to install coldplug....blah blah..."
8 >
9 > I only see one problem here. Who would decide what is "earth
10 > shattering" and what isn't? Personally, I wouldn't include
11 > hotplug/coldplug into this, at all. In fact, the *only* things I can
12 > think of that I would do this with would be toolchain or portage
13 > related.
14
15 I'd say "Anything that if ignored may result in an unusable or
16 unbootable system" would go in -- that could include hotplug/coldplug if
17 one has the right (wrong) things built modularly.

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