Salvador Pardiñas writes:
This patch adds a last-system update timelog to the database, checks the Arch Linux RSS feed for any possible manual interventions added since the last update time, and logs them so the user can keep them in mind.
pacman is not an Arch Linux specific tool, so this patch will not be accepted.
Would it be accepted if the source feed and matching text could be configured instead of being hardcoded? So that other distributions could point it at their equivalent source of important news.
This feels like a lot of code for something which should probably be done through someone's RSS reader, web browser, or just through subscribing to arch-announce. Making it completely generic makes the code that has to be maintained even more burdensome. Reimplementing this existing functionality in pacman rather than using existing tools built for this purpose seems less than ideal. (I'd suggest sending an RFC in future so that the concept can be discussed first for new features, then you can get opinions on the concept before writing code.)