On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:08 AM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Someone suggested that we make emerge not work until the news item is > read. There is nothing I can do in openrc to make something like that > happen. It would be something that would require a portage modification.
Honestly - I see that as a future enhancement for portage/PMS/etc, and not something that should hold up openrc. There are a number of situations where such a feature would be useful, and trying to shoehorn in a hack for openrc doesn't make sense. Perhaps a future/in-progress EAPI could define a mechanism where an ebuild can indicate that a particular update or set of circumstances is a system-critical change, and that the package manager should consequently alert the user and ensure that they have confirmed the action. Then we have a nicely defined interface that we can use for things like major baselayout changes, gcc/glibc ABI changes, and so on. Otherwise the best we can do is widely publicize the change (news, lists, website, etc). In this case the news is out a full week before the update, which I think is good timing (long enough that missing it is less likely, not so long that forgetting it is likely). Rich
