On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 23:32:19 +0100 Grobian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I was referring to the item-name. It is defined to allow "-", whild | the fields are also separated with "-". Hence I suggested to allow | "_" in the item-name instead of "-" to avoid (possible) problems when | parsing the field.
The fields are separated with .s. Underscores for the name don't make parsing any more or less difficult. | > | In any case, elaborate on why supporting only OR was chosen and | > | why other (probably investigated) options were discarded (and | > | hence make my statement above unnecessary). | > | > The previous draft had an option for and or none-of modes. I took it | > out because I don't think it's going to be anywhere near as useful | > as one might initially think. | | I'd appreciate it if that would be documented and grounded. Actually, I'm starting to think Jason's idea works best. | Then what is the point in requiring it is correct English? (Not even | considering the big difference between UK/US English) You can and | will not enforce it. Everyone writing such news item will do her/his | best to make it sound like real English, and perhaps ask for help, | but that's it. Hence my suggestion to put the doc writers in the | loop somehow. What makes you suppose that the doc writers are the most qualified English language speakers? | > | Does portage only 'warn' and still continue, or does it completely | > | stop when an unread news item is found for a package that is to be | > | upgraded? In the first case, the 'preemptive' requirement is being | > | violated, in the latter, the option for a '--force' or something | > | must be discussed. (Users with multiple systems might already | > | know the message, or users might not be interested in it since | > | they don't run the application in production.) | > | > Portage only *warns* you if you try to unmerge glibc... | | Which means you won't be able to satisfy your "preemptive" | requirement. Not at all. You can warn users repeatedly, but there comes a point when trying to warn them any further becomes futile. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Anti-XML, anti-newbie conspiracy) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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