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-23386-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1HkO2E-0002I2-Bc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 17:27:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l45HQBJo021056; Sat, 5 May 2007 17:26:11 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 l45HMj8V016055 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 5 May 2007 17:22:46 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8697E8D316 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 5 May 2007 18:48:20 +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 23554-08 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 5 May 2007 18:48:15 +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 AC0238D305 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sat, 5 May 2007 18:48:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 18:21:47 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24 Message-ID: <20070505182147.21bdd7ff@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <463CBA22.7070200@gentoo.org> References: <200705042249.48267.peper@gentoo.org> <20070505114454.GD23900@kfk4ever.com> <20070505135020.4d129619@snowflake> <463CBA22.7070200@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_B52W1tOZmNPwOVmEn4fJoze; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: 23ba6d7e-1060-4583-93f5-18571003807c X-Archives-Hash: ce638c18b24da26930c6a03e79e82f65 --Sig_B52W1tOZmNPwOVmEn4fJoze Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:08:50 +0000 "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@gentoo.org> wrote: > You're arguing this news item will only be shown to paludis users, but > you're forgetting that paludis users also use many other packages in > the tree. Assume user X has many packages on his system including > package A. The maintainer of package A decides to create a news item > about an upcoming change that will break package A. If user X on the > next update of the tree gets 25 news items, with 15 of them about > config file changes, the probability of the user disregarding package > A's news item is far greater than if the user only gets 3 or 4 news > items, wouldn't you agree? You're looking at it the wrong way. Assume the user gets 25 news items (which is wildly unlikely), 25 of which contain useful information. Then the user is likely to pay attention to all the news items. If, however, only 10 of them contain useful information, they'll likely ignore them all in the future. So the only important question is whether the news items are useful for the people who will see them. In this case we know the answer is yes. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_B52W1tOZmNPwOVmEn4fJoze Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGPL0s96zL6DUtXhERAu07AKDE3wFihgCAH8seJKE265IrBxNtogCeJ6z1 ZueAIwFkNP/4dpdCmqMHDcY= =DvyC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_B52W1tOZmNPwOVmEn4fJoze-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list