On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:51:55 +0200 Tomá? Chvátal <scarab...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 of April 2011 13:32:04 Kfir Lavi wrote: > > When i run world update, I usually don't really check all the > > written stuff. > > > > If I do this, I'm sure a lot more Gentoo users do the same. > > So do expect people rebooting the machine without checking what > > your have wrote. > > This can be a major headache if you have few systems that are doing > > auto updates. > > I would solve this issue by stopping the emerge and getting the > > attention of the user. > > If I don't get the attention of the user, no openrc will be > > installed. It should be something like emerge -C ... 1 .2 3 4 5... > > > > To conclude, you can't issue such a change without proper > > confirmation from the user. > > > This was discussed multiple times, news items are to be read. > Users ignore elog informations/web announcements/... so it was agreed > that news item is agressive enough to user so they must read it. > If they don't do so it is just their fault. > And no runtime changing for portage where it expect some input is > seriously stupid idea, most of us script updates in batch and noone > would actualy read it. > > Never the less as I said we expect user to read that stuff and if he > does not he is on his own due to his dumb approach. Maybe we should underline our intention by having that policy documented in the installation handbook. A good place may be section 2 "Working with Gentoo" (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2). At least all newbies will stumble upon it once. Regards, Thomas.
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