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

[Loui Chang]

On Tue 15 Sep 2009 14:27 +0200, Xavier wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The user should be made aware that there is a ChangeLog, and they have a
> > means of easily reading that before installation or upgrade.
> >
> > There's no need to bloat makepkg, PKGBUILDs, and pacman.
> > You only need to add a little to pacman like this.
> >
>
> changelog can not be read before a transaction because they are not in
> the sync databases, only in local one.
> IIRC, Nagy was complaining about that some times ago.

It wouldn't be too difficult to implement would it?
Just trying to brainstorm a better method for this alert thing.

ChangeLogs don't seem to get much use right now, but this is the perfect
application for it.

Maybe we can see more people using it instead of echoing messages via
the install scriptlets as well. That annoys the hell out of me.