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

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Sat, 05 May 2007 15:37:36 +0200
Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org> wrote:
> That's not what I've been pointing out at all, you've completely
> snipped the important part about *unintended* use of this feature.
> So, once again - this is not an elog replacement and is not intended
> for trivial stuff (see the 'critical news' in GLEP42 title).

This is not trivial stuff and it is not adequately solved by elog.

> > Experience and user feedback has shown that in situations like this
> > users want an accompanying news item even if the application does
> > output deprecation warnings.
> 
> Well again, what kind of experience? You cannot just carry over an
> existing practice of heavily abusing such stuff in a particular
> overlay with a couple of ebuilds and implant it into a tree with
> thousands of packages - it will produce loads of annoying noise and
> the feature will become useless if every maintainer starts to use
> news framework in a similar way.

Er, no it won't. Again, you're not understanding how GLEP 42 works.
Perhaps you should gain some real experience in using it and observing
how real users respond to it before you make such claims.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


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