On 03 Oct 2015 18:30, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 13:24:11 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On 03 Oct 2015 13:38, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 22:13:09 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > Display-If-Installed: >=sys-devel/gcc-5
> > > 
> > > This means that two years from now, when stages are built using GCC
> > > 5, every new user will get this news item shown to them.
> > 
> > multiple news items already use this syntax
> 
> Yes, and they cause problems. Do you want to cause another problem, or
> do you want to think more carefully about who should see the news item?

i see no reason to hold things up when the issue won't show up for over a
year, can be retroactively fixed, and really makes no difference to the
status quo.  so if you had actual thoughts on improving things (rather
than pointless rhetorical questions), feel free to post them.
-mike