Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-06 Thread expose
Daniel Drake wrote: > Is the above correct? AFAIK, yes. Daniel Drake wrote: > I can understand that the system may have been dreamed up with this in > mind, and this certainly isn't an unreasonable design, but I don't see > the corresponding text in the GLEP. Which does not seem to be a problem t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Daniel Drake
I've tried to divide up the various things being discussed here. Regarding paludis: - The syntax change in question affects >=paludis-0.24 - The old syntax is still accepted - A warning message is printed to the console by paludis when the old (deprecated) syntax is detected - The warnin

Re: [PROCTORS] Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote: >> Hello, > >> Thanks to zmedico we now have support for news items on infra-side and heck >> they are ready to use. And we should use them! > >> Attaching news item for paludis 0.24. >>

[PROCTORS] Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks to zmedico we now have support for news items on infra-side and heck > they are ready to use. And we should use them! > > Attaching news item for paludis 0.24. > Justification: major config format change.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Maurice van der Pot
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:44:35PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > There's nothing critical about your * stuff. > > Sure there is. If users aren't informed about the change in an > appropriate manner, the users get annoyed. There's a lot of subjectivity in this sentence... "appropriate"... "ann

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:56:58 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not trying to sabotage anything but total misuse of the feature. > Would have the same objections wrt whatever other "critical" news > that'd constitute completely inappropriate usage of GLEP42 features. > (And I'd expect

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread expose
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:37:37 +0200 > > Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Erm, not really? This is about proper usage of GLEP42 stuff. > > Yes, it is about proper usage of GLEP 42. This news item is one example > of that. > > > There's nothing critical about your * st

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): >> There's nothing critical about your * stuff. > > Sure there is. If users aren't informed about the change in an > appropriate manner, the users get annoyed. > > You're trying to sabotage this based upon arguments over wording > technicalities. Where is your evidence

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread George Prowse
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:03:08 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, then frankly feed those news to your overlay users A good number of Paludis users don't use the overlay. Because the above is clearly stupid - what are you really after here, may I ask? I gue

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread expose
Am Samstag 05 Mai 2007 22:44 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: > On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:37:37 +0200 > > Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Erm, not really? This is about proper usage of GLEP42 stuff. > > Yes, it is about proper usage of GLEP 42. This news item is one example > of that. > > > There's n

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:37:37 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erm, not really? This is about proper usage of GLEP42 stuff. Yes, it is about proper usage of GLEP 42. This news item is one example of that. > There's nothing critical about your * stuff. Sure there is. If users aren't in

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:19:27 +0200 > Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): >>> On Sat, 5 May 2007 22:00:27 +0200 >>> Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paludis users do see the need for a news item. Not the question if palu

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:19:27 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > > On Sat, 5 May 2007 22:00:27 +0200 > > Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Paludis users do see the need for a news item. > >> Not the question if paludis users see the need. Not even

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > On Sat, 5 May 2007 22:00:27 +0200 > Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Paludis users do see the need for a news item. >> Not the question if paludis users see the need. Not even the question >> if i see the need. The point is that GLEP 42 doesn't. > > GLEP 4

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 22:03:08 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, then frankly feed those news to your overlay users A good number of Paludis users don't use the overlay. > Because the above is clearly stupid - what are you really after here, > may I ask? I guess amne is right here.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 22:00:27 +0200 Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paludis users do see the need for a news item. > > Not the question if paludis users see the need. Not even the question > if i see the need. The point is that GLEP 42 doesn't. GLEP 42 is designed to deliver important

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > On Sat, 5 May 2007 21:18:38 +0200 > Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:46:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> It warns noisily. >> Then it's not even close to being broken and i don't see the need for >> a news item. > > You don

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 08:29:14PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > You don't use Paludis. Irrelevant to the issue at hand. We're discussing the (ab-)use of the news system, not my personal choice of package manager. > Paludis users do see the need for a news item. Not the question if paludis us

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 21:18:38 +0200 Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:46:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > It warns noisily. > > Then it's not even close to being broken and i don't see the need for > a news item. You don't use Paludis. Paludis users do se

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:46:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > It warns noisily. Then it's not even close to being broken and i don't see the need for a news item. > It doesn't say how to fix it. I'm sure that can be arranged even without a news item. > > Imho the whole GLEP process is bei

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Saturday, May 5, 2007 07:46:47 PM Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > It warns noisily. It doesn't say how to fix it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [WARNING] In program paludis -ip kdelibs: ... When making environment from specification '': ... When loading paludis configuration: ... When reading licenses file

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 19:34:22 +0200 Wernfried Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:21:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > So the only important question is whether the news items are useful > > for the people who will see them. In this case we know the answer > > is yes. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread expose
Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:21:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > So the only important question is whether the news items are useful for > > the people who will see them. In this case we know the answer is yes. > > No one answered my question asked in Message-ID: > <[EMA

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread expose
Have there been news items yet, which mentioned changes in config files, which did (as far as i understood it) not break the directly next version which is upgraded too, but just made a bunch of warnings arise that the config file uses the old format which now is deprecated, telling the user to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:21:47PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > So the only important question is whether the news items are useful for > the people who will see them. In this case we know the answer is yes. No one answered my question asked in Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> what paludis actua

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:08:50 + "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're arguing this news item will only be shown to paludis users, but > you're forgetting that paludis users also use many other packages in > the tree. Assume user X has many packages on his system includ

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2007 13:44:54 +0200 > Maurice van der Pot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It looks like it is not clear enough what kind of news should be >> called critical. > > It's quite simple. If something is of sufficient in

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Matthias Langer
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 16:51 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:44:46 +0200 > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why did I knew that this argument would come? Maybe because it's your > > default reaction to any opposition. > > What, providing evidence to the contrary? Wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Alec Warner
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:44:46 +0200 > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why did I knew that this argument would come? Maybe because it's your >> default reaction to any opposition. > > What, providing evidence to the contrary? What more do you want? > This is such

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:44:46 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why did I knew that this argument would come? Maybe because it's your > default reaction to any opposition. What, providing evidence to the contrary? What more do you want? -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 5 May 2007 16:23:53 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:12:03 +0200 > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (My) Experience has also shown that gentoo-x86/portage users like > > the elog features in portage, so stop with those games, they don't >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:34:39 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Bennett napsal(a): > > On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:12:03 +0200 > > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> a g42 news item shouldn't be issued for minor syntax > >> changes in config files that could just as

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Stephen Bennett napsal(a): > On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:12:03 +0200 > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> a g42 news item shouldn't be issued for minor syntax >> changes in config files that could just as well handled completely >> automatically in postinst/CONFIG_PROTECT. > > And these ch

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:12:03 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a g42 news item shouldn't be issued for minor syntax > changes in config files that could just as well handled completely > automatically in postinst/CONFIG_PROTECT. And these changes can't be handled that way, since pal

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:12:03 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guess you never looked at the various elog modules in portage-2.1 then > which provide the same (I'd say even more) flexibility how and when > you want to read such stuff But they don't do so by default. > Why does every

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 5 May 2007 09:37:17 -0400 "Stephen P. Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What experience? So far there have been no news items. The issue > > about elog messages being one shot things is rather outdated (at > > least for portage), and post-merge information is the domain of > > elog (a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 16:40:12 +0200 "Wulf C. Krueger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday, May 5, 2007 04:14:25 PM Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > Currently, there are two news item in the Paludis overlay. Unless > > > earlier ones were removed, those two seem to be a fairly small > > > sample to d

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Saturday, May 5, 2007 04:14:25 PM Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Currently, there are two news item in the Paludis overlay. Unless > > earlier ones were removed, those two seem to be a fairly small sample > > to deduce anything from. > They were. How many news items did you issue? (It's probably ea

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 16:15:33 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You seriously intend to use elog across lots of ebuilds rather than > > a single news item? > > Yeah, I seriously think package documentation belongs to tarballs and > gets installed to /usr/share/docs/${PF} - not to gento

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:48:28 +0200 > Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OK, I'm afraid that GLEP42 is missing the part that critical news >> reporting does not replace documentation. You seriously intend to use >> this feature for such stuff and force everyone to d

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 16:05:08 +0200 "Wulf C. Krueger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday, May 5, 2007 03:23:41 PM Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > [Paludis configuration: * -> */*] > > Experience and user feedback has shown that in situations like this > > users want an accompanying news item even if t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wulf C. Krueger
On Saturday, May 5, 2007 03:23:41 PM Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Paludis configuration: * -> */*] > Experience and user feedback has shown that in situations like this > users want an accompanying news item even if the application does > output deprecation warnings. Currently, there are two news item

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 15:51:25 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, but I'd hardly call _your_ experience with paludis overlay > users a reliable indicator that g42 news are superior to elog for > Gentoo at large. Please stop pretending that you're speaking > for/about the majority o

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:48:28 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I'm afraid that GLEP42 is missing the part that critical news > reporting does not replace documentation. You seriously intend to use > this feature for such stuff and force everyone to download this via > rsync? You ser

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 5 May 2007 13:45:47 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:07:41 +0200 > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What experience? So far there have been no news items. > > Paludis has had working news items for ages, and we've used them in > the overl

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Stephen P. Becker napsal(a): > For example, a recent news > item in the paludis overlay informed users on how to properly set > everything up for userpriv with paludis-0.22, a description that was far > too detailed for elog, and which I didn't have time to read the very > minute that I installed t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:37:36 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's not what I've been pointing out at all, you've completely > snipped the important part about *unintended* use of this feature. > So, once again - this is not an elog replacement and is not intended > for trivial stuff

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 15:28:21 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2007 13:46:32 +0100 > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:30:40 +0200 > > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And given that the GLEP specifically states that news it

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:15:55 +0200 > Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How does it matter exactly whether it's paludis users, gcc users, php >> users, apache users or whoever else who will use the news item? Let's >> not misuse news framework for stuff that > > E

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Stephen P. Becker
> What experience? So far there have been no news items. The issue > about elog messages being one shot things is rather outdated (at least > for portage), and post-merge information is the domain of elog (as > stated in the GLEP). As Ciaran explained below, the paludis overlay has been using them

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 5 May 2007 13:46:32 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:30:40 +0200 > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And given that the GLEP specifically states that news items are not > > suposed to replace the usual postinst einfo/elog messages I'm > > t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:15:55 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Only Paludis users will use the news item. To Paludis users, the > > news item is not a triviality or noise. To everyone else it's > > irrelevant. > > How does it matter exactly whether it's paludis users, gcc users, php >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > On Sat, 05 May 2007 14:53:47 +0200 > Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For what situation? Changing * to */* is a bunch of config files (as >> far as I've been told, paludis warns about this deprecated syntax >> anyway)? >> >> If we are going to abuse "critical ne

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 14:53:47 +0200 Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what situation? Changing * to */* is a bunch of config files (as > far as I've been told, paludis warns about this deprecated syntax > anyway)? > > If we are going to abuse "critical news reporting" feature for such > tr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Jakub Moc
Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a): > On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:30:40 +0200 > Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 13:44:54 +0200 Maurice van der Pot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks like it is not clear enough what kind of news should be > called critical. It's quite simple. If something is of sufficient interest to users who would be shown the news item that it is worth them seeing a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:30:40 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. The usual postinst messages are ina

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:07:41 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What experience? So far there have been no news items. Paludis has had working news items for ages, and we've used them in the overlay. > The issue about elog messages being one shot things is rather > outdated (at least

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Maurice van der Pot
It looks like it is not clear enough what kind of news should be called critical. If for instance an upgrade from package foo-3.4 to foo-4.0 will cause the system to break unless specific steps are followed (mysql/gcc), it's obvious that it's suitable for a news item. If an upgrade from an ancie

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:49:47PM +0200, Piotr Jaroszy??ski wrote: > Justification: major config format change. > As of Paludis 0.24, the use of '*' to match all packages in the Paludis > configuration files 'use.conf', 'keywords.conf' and 'licenses.conf' is > deprecated in favour of '*/*'. You s

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Marius Mauch
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-05 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 5 May 2007 00:17:46 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2007 17:38:43 -0500 > Steev Klimaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > otherwise, yeah, elog does the same thing already... > > Experience has shown that news items work in delivering this kind of > inf

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 4 May 2007 20:01:58 -0400 Dan Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > Emm, That would depend upon the viewe

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Dan Meltzer
On Friday 04 May 2007 8:01:58 pm Dan Meltzer wrote: > On Friday 04 May 2007 7:52:46 pm Ciaran McCreesh 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Dan Meltzer
On Friday 04 May 2007 7:52:46 pm Ciaran McCreesh 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 he

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
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 e

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Dan Meltzer
On Friday 04 May 2007 6:58:44 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2007 18:50:00 -0400 > > Dan Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How does this fit the following parts of the GLEP? > > > > "Preemptive > > Preemptiveness is not a requirement for this particular news item. It's > necessary i

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 01:47:07 +0300 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can there be new messages with emerge --pretend if emerge --sync > is the only way to get them? Should be saying unread messages and it > would be clear to me. A new message is one that hasn't been read. -- Ciaran M

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 04 May 2007 17:38:43 -0500 Steev Klimaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right which... seems to me something I would want to know > *BEFORE* I upgraded... No no, if you find out before you upgrade you preemptively change your config files and the old version breaks. If you find out

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Færøy wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:13:12AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> Isn't such use case just a replacement for elog? I thought news were >> supposed to be delivered before upgrading. Also "You should update your >> configuratio

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 00:56:35 +0200 Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Display-If-Installed: signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 4 May 2007 18:50:00 -0400 Dan Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How does this fit the following parts of the GLEP? > > "Preemptive Preemptiveness is not a requirement for this particular news item. It's necessary in many places but not this one. > Additionally, what about this is so c

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2007 01:30:05 +0300 > Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So let's say this was a message about package foobar. If it only >> affects users after they upgrade it would mean that new installs >> would get t

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Dan Meltzer
On Friday 04 May 2007 4:49:47 pm Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks to zmedico we now have support for news items on infra-side and heck > they are ready to use. And we should use them! > > Attaching news item for paludis 0.24. > Justification: major config format change. How does this f

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Ciaran McCreesh kirjoitti: > On Sat, 05 May 2007 01:34:37 +0300 > Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ah found it in the GLEP: >> "The package manager filters the news item and, if it is relevant, >> marks the news item for reading. The package manager should also >> display a notice informi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 01:34:37 +0300 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah found it in the GLEP: > "The package manager filters the news item and, if it is relevant, > marks the news item for reading. The package manager should also > display a notice informing the user that there are unread n

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 05 May 2007 01:30:05 +0300 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So let's say this was a message about package foobar. If it only > affects users after they upgrade it would mean that new installs > would get the news item too, wouldn't it?. Yep. This situation was discussed when desig

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Petteri Räty kirjoitti: > Alexander Færøy kirjoitti: >> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:13:12AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >>> Isn't such use case just a replacement for elog? I thought news were >>> supposed to be delivered before upgrading. Also "You should update your >>> configuration files after

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Petteri Räty
Alexander Færøy kirjoitti: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:13:12AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: >> Isn't such use case just a replacement for elog? I thought news were >> supposed to be delivered before upgrading. Also "You should update your >> configuration files after upgrading." sounds like somet

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Alexander Færøy
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:13:12AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Isn't such use case just a replacement for elog? I thought news were > supposed to be delivered before upgrading. Also "You should update your > configuration files after upgrading." sounds like something one would > read before upg

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Vlastimil Babka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > On Friday 04 of May 2007 23:46:39 Thomas Rösner wrote: >> You mean "Display-If-Installed: > No, I want it displayed only after installation of the new version. > Isn't such use case just a replacement for elog? I thought

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On Friday 04 of May 2007 23:46:39 Thomas Rösner wrote: > You mean "Display-If-Installed:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

2007-05-04 Thread Thomas Rösner
Hi, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > Hello, > > (...) > > Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/paludis-0.24 You mean "Display-If-Installed: