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 1HkLCB-0007aC-Kj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 14:25:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l45EODhC006658; Sat, 5 May 2007 14:24:13 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 l45EMJHf004442 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 14:22:19 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A3968D316 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 15:48:02 +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 21915-01 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 15:47:56 +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 C11208D305 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 15:47:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 15:21:20 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24 Message-ID: <20070505152120.14c14113@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <463C9185.60708@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> <20070505001746.5c8e2fb6@snowflake> <20070505100741.6d6e43b9@sheridan.genone.homeip.net> <20070505093717.3b34b015@azathoth.beerandrocks.net> <463C8B2C.5020906@gentoo.org> <20070505145936.060670d5@snowflake> <463C9185.60708@gentoo.org> 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_.7lgAQqAa+DivVbGeyyBE+Z; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: e7146a35-5b67-4c98-9ff5-ecca6c9d0ec5 X-Archives-Hash: 625ce17817f94f0d1fa386789ec3f0c2 --Sig_.7lgAQqAa+DivVbGeyyBE+Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 05 May 2007 16:15:33 +0200 Jakub Moc wrote: > > You seriously intend to use elog across lots of ebuilds rather than > > a single news item? >=20 > Yeah, I seriously think package documentation belongs to tarballs and > gets installed to /usr/share/docs/${PF} - not to gentoo-x86 repository > where you are forcing every single user to download such stuff via > rsync and have it sitting on their disk even if they don't use the > package at all. Then you should work on a partial sync implementation. > And if you need a pointer to new features, a simple 'elog "Read the > NEWS/Changelog in /usr/share/doc/${PF}" or a link to a website is > definitely more appropriate that abusing critical news for howtos and > new features announcement. Except that then the news item won't be read by most of the affected users. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_.7lgAQqAa+DivVbGeyyBE+Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGPJLi96zL6DUtXhERAnxGAJ9Sr0KQSeHeklW6gnh3Ph+f6LPQzQCfaINz PNOIZrhgAr6tbBNqOLBpW7s= =TZde -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_.7lgAQqAa+DivVbGeyyBE+Z-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list