From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EYGIq-0007YP-KD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 05:09:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA558c4I025545; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 05:08:38 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA556rpX003841 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 05:06:54 GMT Received: from zh034158.ppp.dion.ne.jp ([222.3.34.158] helo=opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EYGGT-0000cn-Ih for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Nov 2005 05:06:53 +0000 Received: by opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1B7A424816D; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 14:08:09 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Was: Getting Important Updates To Users) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 14:08:08 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.92 References: <200511010836.29453.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <200511050144.24388.jstubbs@gentoo.org> <436BAE23.40104@egr.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <436BAE23.40104@egr.msu.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511051408.09014.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 3916ca57-7060-42e1-a6d4-81ce380b795c X-Archives-Hash: 53882c0dd74e39812eda4f36700de0e2 On Saturday 05 November 2005 03:53, Alec Joseph Warner wrote: > As far as including news in the tree goes, news is repository bound > information. Each repository may in fact have relevant news, and in > preparation for multiple repositories this is how the news should be > handled. It goes with the rest of the repo-specific information. That > is why it should be in the tree. I seem to be repeating myself... What's an example of repository-specific non-package-specific news? Why does `emerge --changelog` not suffice for package-specific news? -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list