Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 news item for review: Radiant upgrade

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>]

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On Sun, 6 May 2007 15:43:45 -0400
Dan Meltzer <hydrogen@notyetimplemented.com> wrote:
> No, I've read the other threads.  You've not explained how this is a
> critical update that requires a news item.  You've said repeatedly in
> response to related questions that your experience with news for one
> package in one overlay used by a small subset of users that uses said
> package recieved good feedback, and that they would like to be
> informed of changes in the future. You were informed that elog can do
> just that, and you said repeatedly that elog is not sufficient
> because its not loggged by default.   You could easily make elog
> logged by default in paludis, and that would achieve the same result
> as a news item.  What did I forget?

Er, making elog logged by default would not solve the "requires an
explicit read" problem. Making elog require an explicit read would
be far too annoying because most elog notices are noise. We've been
over this already.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


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