On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 17:27 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > 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.
I'm not familiar with either Paludis or the eselect news module. Could you please explain in a few sentences how this problem is solved? > > > 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. My intention would be to show these right after 'emerge --sync' or 'emerge --pretend', not when the package is about to be merged. Hans
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