Two things. One, if users run --sync in a cronjob, which many do, this preemptive goes out the window.
Two, an alternative to that, if we are all recoding portage anyways :) Have portage place a special note next to any items with relevent news when -a or -p is passed, and then, emerge --news cat/package could show relvent stuff, or --news to see it all. On 11/1/05, Georgi Georgiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > maillog: 01/11/2005-11:45:08(+0100): Jakub Moc types > > 1.11.2005, 11:00:22, Thierry Carrez wrote: > > > > > 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... > > > > > > I'm probably missing something obvious here, because I can't see why > *existing* > > emerge --changelog code cannot be recycled for this feature to display > upgrade > > messages when running emerge -uDav world... > > That reminds me of the idea to stick tags in the ChangeLog: > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.dev/msg/8f2dc84619be5c5b?fwc=1 > > But still, I'm guessing the idea of "--news" is to tell people that they > need to do something A.S.A.P. This means as soon as the news are > obtained, and the users are nagged about the news on *every invocation > of emerge*, similar to the /etc messages, and not only when they decide > to install some package, which is when --changelog kicks in. > > And then, I am not sure why glsa-check cannot do the same job... > > -- > () Georgi Georgiev () Computers are unreliable, but humans are () > () [EMAIL PROTECTED] () even more unreliable. Any system which () > () http://www.gg3.net/ () depends on human reliability is () > () ------------------- () unreliable. -- Gilb () > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
