Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:48:19 -0400
Dan Meltzer <hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> 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.

> 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.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


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