On Sun, 6 May 2007 18:20:31 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thus giving them lots of notice, which is one of the things the GLEP > > was designed to do. > > If either the news item is shown once, it is bad because the user > might forget about if until that package actually hits the stable > branch.
The 'eselect news' module that ships with Paludis solves that problem. > The only solution I currently see is an additional field in the > header, a change in behaviour and therefore the GLEP itself. > In particular, this field could be my previous understanding > of "Display-If-Upgrading-From-To" namely > "Display-Before-Upgrading-From-To" which would fit the requirements > defined by the GLEP: It doesn't fit the preemptive requirement. That wouldn't be preemptive, it would be last minute. One of the reasons for the GLEP is to remove the need for last-minute pkg_setup die notices. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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