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 1Hk7dT-0004LY-HB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 23:56:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l44NtWtS011184; Fri, 4 May 2007 23:55:32 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 l44NrciX008905 for ; Fri, 4 May 2007 23:53:38 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26A18D316 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 01:20:15 +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 09493-02 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 01:20:10 +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 899818D305 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 01:20:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 00:52:46 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24 Message-ID: <20070505005246.18a8fe84@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <200705041948.19737.hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> References: <200705042249.48267.peper@gentoo.org> <200705041850.00514.hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> <20070504235844.136fd6cf@snowflake> <200705041948.19737.hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_Qyge1/sxWgZK5yHH.ss9z/u"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: fc856489-a39c-4224-9c0e-7978dd806876 X-Archives-Hash: 200a913f0f8ea76d0bbd79208fe4704b --Sig_Qyge1/sxWgZK5yHH.ss9z/u Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:48:19 -0400 Dan Meltzer wrote: > That seems like a really bad road to go down. >=20 > 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_Qyge1/sxWgZK5yHH.ss9z/u Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGO8dQ96zL6DUtXhERAjAyAKCPNKoOtaj7t759yuq7iaTCu2IUOwCfWPTS PaqcZ6/0p2325vNR4/3v7r0= =p2FJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_Qyge1/sxWgZK5yHH.ss9z/u-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list