[pacman-dev] Discussion on archlinux.org and pacman

[Allan McRae]

On 25/02/14 17:31, Drew DeVault wrote:
> Would there be any interest in checking the archlinux.org RSS feed
> (https://www.archlinux.org/feeds/news/) for new posts since the last
> time the user updated their system, and warning them as they proceed?
> 
> Considerations:
> 
> - Allow an alternate RSS source to be selected
> - Enabled or disabled by default?
> - How to parse XML - do we want an additional dependency?

I think it needs an email reader so it can get messages from
arch-announce.  Then I think pacman con finish expanding its features.

But, no...  there is no interest from the pacman perspective.  Of course
it could be added to any other libalpm frontend.

Allan