On 19:05 Mon 31 Oct , Stuart Herbert wrote:
> > Maybe we could add a big news warning in the next minor portage
> > update that when you tells you about the new news features (perhaps a
> > big einfo after you upgrade.
>
> The problems of einfo messages not reaching our users have been well
> documented already :(
>
Why not log all the e{info,warn}s into a file, and then tell the user
about them at the end of the emerge (in the same way they are told about
changes in /etc)? Said file should then be safe to delete if desired.
Mailing this info instead (/as well?) could also be available as an
option (even if the user just wants to use something simple like nbsmtp
to send it to some email address, rather than having to run their
own mailserver).
I guess you could also go for something like freebsd's
/usr/ports/UPGRADING file, which users are supposed to read before
upgrading things, but I'm not sure if people would bother reading it.
Dave
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