Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCHES] kernel-2.eclass: Various changes requested by users. + [STABLEREQ?] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.7: Any objections against stabilizing?

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

El dom, 14-04-2013 a las 04:08 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió:
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:23:00 +0200
> "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > Am Sonntag, 14. April 2013, 10:24:18 schrieb Ryan Hill:
> > >
> > > Personally I think that the entire idea of only displaying messages on the
> > > first install is completely asinine.  What exactly is the benefit?  Were
> > > users complaining that we were being too helpful and they'd like us to
> > > hide important messages in random places?
> > 
> > No. They are just not reading it when the only new and relevant message is 
> > drowned in repetitive spam.
> 
> So the solution is to not display them at all?  New messages won't be printed
> unless the maintainer uses REPLACING_VERSIONS, in which case you get exactly
> the same behaviour as now, ie. "drowned in repetitive spam".  All this does is
> reduce the chance of the user ever seeing important information.  If they
> happen to miss it the first time they're SOL.  Are cosmetics really a bigger
> concern than keeping users informed?
> 
> 

The messages are shown the first time by elog *and* saved
in /usr/share/doc/*/README.gentoo, adding the advantage of users having
that docs always present without needing to re-emerge the package or
manually read ebuilds