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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, Jameson Graef Rollins\r
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+Subject: Re: WARNING: database upgrade coming\r
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+Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:\r
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+> FWIW it should always be safe to interrupt the upgrade; I know we don't\r
+> inform the user about this.\r
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+With that in mind, would it be reasonable/worthwhile to print a 5 second (or so)\r
+countdown before running the upgrade? But then people who run it\r
+non-interactively would still automagically get the upgrade, just 5\r
+seconds later.\r
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