On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:27:45 -0500 »Q« wrote: > > If you aren't, you won't see the news item. > > I saw it when it was posted here. Because the GLEP 42 process, quite rightly, requires that news items be posted to -dev for review before they're committed. > It seems important but not critical. If I've misunderstood, and news > items won't be downloaded by non-Paludis users when they sync, then > I'd agree that 'important', as determined by the package > maintainer(s), is a fine threshold for including them. It's 'downloaded' in the same way that einfo messages in the tree for ebuilds that you don't use are downloaded. It is not displayed to the end user unless they are affected. -- Ciaran McCreesh