Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-06 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 06 November 2005 13:38, Duncan wrote: > I don't believe the apache upgrade issues were announced on the announce > list. For the record, it was sent to the announce list on 2004-12-24. Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [gentoo-announce] Apache packages refresh on 8th January 20

[gentoo-dev] use.defaults ( auto-use )

2005-11-06 Thread Alec Warner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could we by chance, mandate some sort of comment field in that file not unlike package.mask? I usually like to know the reason why these flags are being switched on. Certainly there are some flags that I don't mind and there are others where I just ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-06 Thread Marius Mauch
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 22:50:42 +0100 Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 04 of November 2005 02:50 Lance Albertson wrote: > > After reading through the heated thread, I have yet to see your > > valid point of pushing xml for such a simple task. All I have seen > > is two 3rd grade kids

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:33:50 +0100 Grobian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > | Which means you won't be able to satisfy your "preemptive" | > | requirement. | > | > Not at all. You can warn users repeatedly, but there comes a point | > when trying to warn them any further bec

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 14:38:47 -0700 Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | While I agree with the point you make, I don't believe the apache | upgrade issues were announced on the announce list. The news in the | tree thing is a good idea, IMO, but it'll take some time to | implement. "Earth changing

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-06 Thread Duncan
Stuart Herbert posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 20:37:14 +: > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 13:58 +0100, Grobian wrote: >> A lot Gentoo users I know read gentoo-announce and the GWN. > > But *many* more don't. That's what we learned from the Apache package > refresh,

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-06 Thread Stuart Herbert
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 13:58 +0100, Grobian wrote: > A lot Gentoo users I know read gentoo-announce and the GWN. But *many* more don't. That's what we learned from the Apache package refresh, and what we've also learned from the PHP5 work. > Works fine for me. What works for you is irrelevant t

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting

2005-11-06 Thread R Hill
Nathan L. Adams wrote: Just keep in mind that portage is supposed to be non-interactive and most users like it that way. (Although the countdown when cleaning out old packages kinda breaks that idea, but I digress.) This must be some definition of the word interactive i'm not aware of. ;) Dis

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Was: Getting Important Updates To Users)

2005-11-06 Thread R Hill
Jason Stubbs wrote: I seem to be repeating myself... What's an example of repository-specific non-package-specific news? Why does `emerge --changelog` not suffice for package-specific news? a) maintainers don't put important news in their changelogs. there are a few exceptions. gregkh's ude

Re: [gentoo-dev] Release: webapp-config v1.11 - call for testers

2005-11-06 Thread Kevin
Stuart Herbert wrote: > Hi, > > I've just released webapp-config v1.11 into the Portage tree. It Stuart, have you had a chance to look at Bugzilla Bug 101234 regarding webapp-config-1.11-r1 recently? It was opened on 2005-08-03 and there seems to have been no progress on resolving it since it w

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-06 Thread Grobian
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Which means you won't be able to satisfy your "preemptive" | requirement. Not at all. You can warn users repeatedly, but there comes a point when trying to warn them any further becomes futile. Then what is the point of this GLEP? Instead, just warn people through ex