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.
;)
Ciaran McCreesh posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted
below, on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:51:25 +:
``Version:``
Initially 1. Incremented every time a non-trivial change is made.
Changes which require a re-read of the news item should instead use a
new news item file.
Very good work!
Two things.
One, if users run --sync in a cronjob, which many do, this preemptive
goes out the window.
Two, an alternative to that, if we are all recoding portage anyways :)
Have portage place a special note next to any items with relevent
news when -a or -p is passed, and then, emerge --news
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 09:08:19PM -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote:
I spoke to you about this in PM, but I think I didn't make it clear,
so here we are :)
WRT links in file updates, this seems completely backwards. If a user
was admining over ssh, it would be far easier for them to load www.g.o
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:08:19 -0500 Dan Meltzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| WRT links in file updates, this seems completely backwards. If a user
| was admining over ssh, it would be far easier for them to load www.g.o
| in their browser vs. copying link from terminal to their browser, but
| for
That works, I suppose my point was, if you are going to be adminning
from a box with a webbrowser anyways, why not just use that
aforementioned webbrowser to check www.g.o? what is the benefit of
news/ over that?
On 10/31/05, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:08:19
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:25:29 -0500 Dan Meltzer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| That works, I suppose my point was, if you are going to be adminning
| from a box with a webbrowser anyways, why not just use that
| aforementioned webbrowser to check www.g.o? what is the benefit of
| news/ over that?
It
Dan Meltzer wrote:
That works, I suppose my point was, if you are going to be adminning
from a box with a webbrowser anyways, why not just use that
aforementioned webbrowser to check www.g.o? what is the benefit of
news/ over that?
So you are going to tell www.g.o what your installed system is
