Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Preemptive > Users should be told of changes *before* they break the user's system, > not after the damage has already been done.
I think that's one of the key points... > Notification that new relevant news items will be displayed via the > ``emerge`` tool in a similar way to the existing "configuration files need > updating" messages: > > * Important: 3 config files in /etc need updating. > * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. > > * Important: there are 5 unread news items. > * Type emerge --help news to learn how to read news files. Aren't those messages displayed after the damage is done ? Typical use : - emerge --sync run as a daily cron job - emerge -a mysql - great, a new version is there. Typing "Yes" - system gets borken - emerge spits out message saying 14 files need updating and there is 1 unread news item I'm probably missing something here. Please elaborate on how this GLEP meets the "Preemptive" design goal... -- Thierry Carrez (Koon) Gentoo Council Member -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
