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 <gentoo-dev+bounces-23339-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1Hk771-0003Rl-AS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 23:22:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l44NLNiO028424; Fri, 4 May 2007 23:21:23 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l44NIcdW024745 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 4 May 2007 23:18:38 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449938D314 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 5 May 2007 00:45:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08018-10 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 5 May 2007 00:45:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from snowflake (unknown [62.6.163.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99AA38D305 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 5 May 2007 00:45:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 00:17:46 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24 Message-ID: <20070505001746.5c8e2fb6@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <463BB5F3.7060202@gentoo.org> References: <200705042249.48267.peper@gentoo.org> <463BA9BF.4080708@digital-trauma.de> <200705042356.10789.peper@gentoo.org> <463BAFF8.80100@gentoo.org> <20070504222225.GA11120@anubis.perspektivbredband.net> <463BB5F3.7060202@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_2tvO7_Ms.OTXp7fru7mnCl7; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: 39979f01-7c7d-46b7-8151-3718adcbc84d X-Archives-Hash: edda796062c7cd58198b27c93242254f --Sig_2tvO7_Ms.OTXp7fru7mnCl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 04 May 2007 17:38:43 -0500 Steev Klimaszewski <steev@gentoo.org> wrote: > Right.... which... seems to me something I would want to know > *BEFORE* I upgraded...=20 No no, if you find out before you upgrade you preemptively change your config files and the old version breaks. If you find out after you upgrade you know why you're getting a load of warnings about '*' being deprecated. > otherwise, yeah, elog does the same thing already... Experience has shown that news items work in delivering this kind of information to users whereas elog doesn't. elog is a one-shot thing that may or may not (usually the latter) actually get seen, whereas a news item stays around until the user reads it. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_2tvO7_Ms.OTXp7fru7mnCl7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGO78c96zL6DUtXhERAvGGAKC3r3hiIzGpjg58lXOc3Hma761YDQCg3t9e 5sQLQFdnwraf3Mrn1hkUtgk= =HYQp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_2tvO7_Ms.OTXp7fru7mnCl7-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list