[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Allow package to display a brief message before sync install

[James Rayner]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:14 PM, James Rayner <iphitus at iphitus.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at 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.