On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:14 PM, James Rayner <iphitus@iphitus.org> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't really know what to think here. I had looked at that messages one for a long time and thought it was a decent idea, but never went far enough to take it and run with it.
@Loui- sure, but this is for extraordinary messages- a lot more exclusive than ChangeLog-worthy stuff, and you have to explicitly request to see that anyway.
@Jeff- it isn't exactly straightforward to view an install script beforehand, and the post_install business is a rather hacky reason for needing an install script.
-Dan
Dan's got the idea...
pacman should not break someone's system without at least telling them first. So yes - this is intended for more extraordinary messages.
The current ways of informing the user (homepage/forum news and post-install) are broken and non-simple: - both polling based oh, and post-install is after the fact - when the system is broken, so it's not a very good way of informing the user that their system "will break" because it's already broken.
Anyway, I'm all for a more generalised/ideal setup, but that's been wanted for a while with no patches coming forward.