Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users

[Mike Doty <kingtaco@gentoo.org>]

Stuart Herbert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 18:11 +0100, Simon Stelling wrote:
> 
>>Doesn't make much sense to me. The biggest benefit from --news over other, 
>>traditional channels would be that it's linked to the tree, meaning, if you 
>>emerge a new kernel version which doesn't contain devfs anymore, the ebuild 
>>would call something like enews ${FILESDIR}/blah which would then somehow make 
>>emerge mention it. 
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> This isn't the problem I'm trying to get solved.  
> 
> You're talking about a reactive news system, telling users about the
> consequences of their actions.  I'm after a pro-active news system,
> telling users about what will change, so that they have the information
> they need to plan upgrades.
> 
> We need both.  
We definitly need this.  I'm reminded of the recent apache changes, 
which could of been much less painful if we had something like this.
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