On Sat, 5 May 2007 00:52:46 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:48:19 -0400 > Dan Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That seems like a really bad road to go down. > > > > Would it not be better to extend elog to alert people at the end of > > an install as well? > > Doesn't help. It's only there once, and it's easy to ignore. Users > don't have to explicitly mark it as read, so it's frequently not read. > elog is not an adequate solution. Interesting that so far nobody (including yourself) has requested such a feature ... Also GLEP42 (as specified) is also an inadequate solution as there is no check for news items _after_ a package install, so in the typical use case users won't see this news item when it's most relevant (going by specification, haven't checked implementations). And given that the GLEP specifically states that news items are not suposed to replace the usual postinst einfo/elog messages I'm tempted to call this an abuse of the news framework. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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