On śro, 2017-05-24 at 13:13 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > Many news items are only relevant when upgrading a package from one > version to another. For fresh installs, the user does not need to take > any action. A good example of this is the recent gcc upgrade from 4.9 > to 5. > > In this context, it is often desirable to inform the user of a major > change in a package before they upgrade it. This would give them time > to prepare, and allow to skip the upgrade until they are ready. > > This is technically possible with the current news item format by > using a Display-If-Installed header. However, this has a few problems > depending on how you format the dependency spec. > > Display-If-Installed: cat/pkg > This will be displayed to too many users. > > Display-If-Installed: >=cat/pkg-ver > This will be displayed to users only after they have upgraded. > > Display-If-Installed: <cat/pkg-ver > This targets the right people, but the message will be displayed too > early for stable users. > > I would like to introduce a new header "Display-If-Visible". This > would restrict display of the news item to users for which the given > dependency is visible according to their ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and > package.accept_keywords settings. > > Example usage: > > Display-If-Installed: <sys-devel/gcc-5 > Display-If-Visible: >=sys-devel/gcc-5 > > Comments? >
https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/7f5ff2c0a844050f846516a6af39bb06 (and the replies to that) -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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