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#1 2012-07-28 11:48:02
- ebal
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pacman suggestion
How about when upgrading your system, an info msg appears to news section ?
Or a uri link to news section.
Something like: Before proceed click here for info.
or is it too much trouble ?
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#2 2012-07-28 11:50:56
- tomk
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Re: pacman suggestion
Try pacmatic.
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#3 2012-07-28 12:39:45
- karol
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Re: pacman suggestion
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#4 2012-07-28 15:35:05
- ANOKNUSA
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Re: pacman suggestion
A neat idea, but still: If you're running pacman, you have access to the internet. Problem solved.
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#5 2012-07-30 19:49:39
- ebal
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Re: pacman suggestion
Adding a new layer in pacman (like pacmatic) isnt something that everyone find etiquette.
Having access to internet isnt either the solution.
I find myself a lot of times using download only option to pacman and actually upgrade my system when i have some quite time (i hibernate a lot).
FS#27653 - Pacman - manual intervention flag
is actually what i am looking for.
If PKGBUILDs are build up with proper msgs or a new flag (for manual intervention) is in place, users would have proper informations before commit an upgrade.
I dont believe in "users are stupid" or "alan broke my system", i believe in the spirit of collaboration in order to achieve the best result in opensource community.
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#6 2012-07-30 20:01:04
- karol
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Re: pacman suggestion
Usually if pacman doesn't update cleanly that's a signal you might want to check if an announcement has been made.
Why can't you visit archlinux.org when you're downloading packages?
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#7 2012-07-30 20:16:38
- ebal
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Re: pacman suggestion
@karol
sorry but i am missing something.
Your suggestion is before using pacman, open archlinux.org ?
Manual intervention isnt something you need to do in every upgrade.
So why not inform people thought pacman ?
something like:
Plz read "this link" before upgrading your system
keep it clean & simple
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#8 2012-07-30 20:36:35
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Re: pacman suggestion
That feature request is not even assigned to anyone, so I suggest using pacmatic for now.
I might help if you provided a patch that implements such functionality in pacman.
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