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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hk7qw-00088U-9s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 00:10:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4509MW6022688; Sat, 5 May 2007 00:09:22 GMT Received: from meriadoc.alfred.edu (list.alfred.edu [149.84.147.232]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4507UFT020477 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 00:07:31 GMT Received: from perdition.campus.alfred.edu (perdition.campus.alfred.edu [149.84.24.151]) (authenticated bits=0) by meriadoc.alfred.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l4507UPR032289 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 4 May 2007 20:07:30 -0400 From: Dan Meltzer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24 Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 20:07:34 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200705042249.48267.peper@gentoo.org> <20070505005246.18a8fe84@snowflake> <200705042001.58740.hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> In-Reply-To: <200705042001.58740.hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> 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: <200705042007.34468.hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> X-Archives-Salt: 399bc6f4-a2bb-4667-84c8-e6aa3fb71f10 X-Archives-Hash: 7eeb965ea190dc0bd2c6e4c85bbbcaee On Friday 04 May 2007 8:01:58 pm Dan Meltzer wrote: > On Friday 04 May 2007 7:52:46 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:48:19 -0400 > > > > Dan Meltzer wrote: > > > That seems like a really bad road to go down. > > > > > > Would it not be better to extend elog to alert people at the end of > > > an install as well? > > > > Doesn't help. It's only there once, and it's easy to ignore. Users > > don't have to explicitly mark it as read, so it's frequently not read. > > elog is not an adequate solution. > > Emm, That would depend upon the viewer I'd think. elogs are saved in a > directory, and so the only way they would disappear is if the user chose to > delete them (or the viewer did it for them). Ooops, I guess they are only saved if it's explicity enabled, there goes that idea :/ > > > > When I think of news I think of things that are > > > required to do or my system will break. That is what I want out of > > > news. I can't see how deprecated syntax fits that defination. The > > > program should warn when it finds deprecated syntax, and the users > > > will then know. Or if the users ignore it, then when the support is > > > removed and the package errors, the user fixes it then without any > > > major headache. It sure isn't something that will break a users > > > system utterly if its not acted upon. > > > > It's something that is of sufficient interest to those who will read > > the news item that a news item is warranted. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list