Fedora Com System ? (was: Package updating problem and solutions)
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Dec 12 21:08:22 UTC 2008
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Fedora Com System ? (was: Package updating problem and
> solutions)
> From: Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org>
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list at redhat.com>
> Date: 12/12/2008 02:03 PM
>
>>
>> How are fedora-announce, the blogs and the webpages NOT this?
>>
>
> We need an applet that notifies users of announce e-mails or some form of
> libnotify box that says "hey stupid, read this Fedora news." New users
> typically care less about mailing lists, blogs, and webpages unless they are
> looking to set up new software like Samba sharing or have a bug like the
> PackageKit dependency.
>
> From my own experience, I could care less about visiting Fedora web sites
> daily. Should all end users pour hours of their lives into reading web pages
> and blogs daily? No, the process should be done for them.
>
okay, so as much as this makes me cringe I'll suggest something probably
crack filled:
- additional metadata file of notices in repodata
- each notice has an id on it
- a yum plugin or pk or what not - records the notices you've seen
- as it finds new ones it emits them for you.
that wouldn't really help us in the situation where an update broke the
update system, of course.
-sv
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