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 arguing over a swing set. Please give some calm reasons for > your opinion instead of voicing things in such a heated manner. Making > assumptions about someone else's opinions gets you no where.
Well, my point is that our GLSAs and the associated code already handles stuff very similar to the `emerge --news` idea, namely: a) displaying info only for users having affected package b) support for arch-specific issues c) version-specific messages d) instructions on how to make a workaround and how to fix the problem permanently So the code is here, as well as existing procedures to make new announcements, to list them on the website, forums etc. The only disadvantage I'm aware of is that Portage would have to include XML parser, but as Brian said, most of Portage installations already do (sorry, I'm not familiar neither with stages nor with Portage, feel free to correct me). WKR, -jkt -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth
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