On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 12:26 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:16:03 +0100 Thierry Carrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | For them to know about it, they need to be warned when they do their > | "emerge -p world" or "emerge -a mysql" that the upgrade is not as easy > | as it seems. People using a cron job to sync are probably a > | significant part of our user base... > > Have Portage give a red flashy before emerge if there're unread news > items?
Or have it die unless they have I_LIKE_A_BROKEN_SYSTEM_PLEASE_IGNORE_NEWS="yes" in make.conf.... ;] > Although, a better solution for users who cron sync would be to have > said cron mail them all the relevant news files... We don't have control over what they do in cron, we do have control over portage itself. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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