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 4.50) id 1EWMwj-0002QS-GP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:50:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9UNmO2d018125; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:48:24 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ftp.crawdat.com [65.116.46.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9UNiiAD027470 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:44:45 GMT Received: from [209.205.160.124] (nosp1-209-205-160-124.i-55.com [209.205.160.124]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j9UNtKV1005228 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:55:21 -0600 Message-ID: <43655AE9.4000806@exceedtech.net> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:44:41 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051022 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users References: <200510301642.39469.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <20051030090623.GA12148@superlupo.rechner> <200510301754.45823.m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b8572d4c-34fb-4c8a-9975-13b91f8e8f83 X-Archives-Hash: c6ad0e3ea385d360d8be1b4e18558384 Qian Qiao wrote: >/signed, :) > >The emerge --news is quite worth considering, and on p.g.o, stuart >mentioned having emerge to produce outputs like this after a sync: > > ># emerge sync > > >* Important: 3 config files in /etc need updating. >* Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. > >* Important: there are 5 unread news items. >* Type emerge --news to read news about changes to Gentoo. > > >which I think is also a brilliant idea. > >Just my .02 USD as a user. > >-- Joe > > I like the --news idea and brilliant is a good way to describe it. That would also be so cool. If you are not syncing you don't need to change anything but if you are, you get to see what changes are made. That would be good since some changes, like devfs to udev, are really good but do require some input on the user end. That is one reason I subscribed here. Things are changing and I miss it until something stops working. Catch-up is a bit tough. My $.02 worth and that ain't much. Dale -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list