Josh Sled <jsled@asynchronous.org>:
> >> Why not just an elog during install of the emacs-23 package itself?
> >
> >  Because nobody reads them 
> 
> If one doesn't read elog, which is at least put in the terminal during
> the emerge (if not sent to IM or email), why would they read news,
> which they need to go out of their way to find?

 Fewer people know about the elogging functionality than about their
display of "You have 1 unread news item".

> > and you get weird errors on start-up which
> > will result in bug reports. 
> 
> Except this won't get shown until after installation anyways.
> 
>     Display-If-Installed: =app-editors/emacs-23*
> 
> Maybe…
> 
>     Display-If-Installed: <app-editors/emacs-23
> 
> …instead?  To show to those users that are upgrade candidates?
> 
> I do wish there was a "pretend/pre-emerge notification" capability in
> portage for things like upgrade guides (libxml, python 2.5->2.6,
> gnome, xorg-1.5, &c.).  I guess news gets most of it, and then some.
>

 Your system won't be rendered unusable just because you updated Emacs
(the 23 version isn't activated by default if you do an upgrade, you
have 22 active besides the new one).  Such I want to get people who
will see Emacs 23 only when it hits stable in some months.  By then they
will have forgotten about the news item.

V-Li 

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