Confirm reading Arch news

[mattia-b89]

$ pikaur -Vq
Pikaur v1.9
Pacman v6.0.1 - libalpm v13.0.1 - pyalpm v0.10.6

Description:

I had updated a system with very old packages, that's many (almost all) of them have been upgraded, resulting in a very long list, before proceed with the upgrade.

This led me to missing the Arch news, just because terminal automatically scroll down...

I'd like to have a discussion about this issue: for example, adding a confirmation message e.g. "Press Enter to continue" message would be enough IMO or another solution could be placing Arch news at the bottom of the package list

[actionless]

adding a confirmation message e.g. "Press Enter to continue" message would be enough IMO

such prompt also would require thinking of default choice for both manual and --noconfirm modes

[mattia-b89]

I think:

• with --noconfirm it skips the prompt, that's no changes compared with today's behaviour
• for manual there isn't a default choice because there is no choice; it is different to edit (Y/n) question, where user is able to edit or not to edit. Here the user can go only "forward" by acknowledging the presence of news

[actionless]

with --noconfirm it skips the prompt, that's no changes compared with today's behaviour

in this case should the news be marked as read (as now) or not?

[mattia-b89]

Good point! In this case, there is no true objective/definitive action: --no-confirm means no user interactions, so it skips the prompt; but the point is: next time should we show the former news again?

I think no, the news should be marked as read, because:

1. news is anyway shown (the prompt just helps you to not miss it), so user can always read it
2. --no-confirm is a voluntary option, so user is aware

[actionless]

i've got a nice idea for UI finally:

There is news from archlinux.org!
<Some news goes here>

:: AUR package will be installed:
 pikaur-git                            1.18.3.r13.g70000af-1  -> 1.18.4-1

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: [v]iew package details   [m]anually select packages
:: [c]onfirm Arch news read
>> 

and in --noconfirm mode news would just remain unread