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 1EY3zX-0001hB-FQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:00:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA4FxdCc015286; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:59:39 GMT Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA4FvoOQ009019 for ; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:57:50 GMT Received: from [67.191.242.121] (c-67-191-242-121.hsd1.ga.comcast.net[67.191.242.121]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2005110415574901200mmh8te>; Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:57:49 +0000 Message-ID: <436B8475.7070602@ieee.org> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 10:55:33 -0500 From: "Nathan L. Adams" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050722) 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] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <200511041002.53538.pauldv@gentoo.org> <436B6450.8060505@ieee.org> <200511041505.17430.pauldv@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200511041505.17430.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d84653df-a1f2-4531-b2fd-79093a13f751 X-Archives-Hash: bcbc2a6445e3baa6e32a5ac7f50c225e -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Friday 04 November 2005 14:38, Nathan L. Adams wrote: > >>Paul de Vrieze wrote: >> >>>What is worse is that some >>>users might not update for a prolongued time (6 months). At that time >>>they will not find the information in the erata list anymore. But >>>they will get the RELEVANT news delivered by emerge/enews. >> >>Why would a "SomeSQL 1.0 to 1.1" guide ever need to dissappear? Surely >>errata.g.o would have archiving/searching. But I do see your point >>about emerge filtering out the unwanted stuff. > > > It would be hidden in the forrest. Even if I did a search on SomeSQL, it > might return a number of news items on SomeSQL. That is besides the fact > that I have 737 packages installed. I'm not going to search news on all > of them. Archiving would of course be provided, but searching is not > usefull for updating. You update all 737 packages with each emerge? I don't see any validity in your point; a nice http://errata.g.o/ site with archived guides and search wouldn't preclude 'emerge --news' in any way. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDa4R12QTTR4CNEQARApTFAKCL3rZ88STZtuu1EZUw/iSFf8NJMACfXtHu UyKLcgsYF4+nC+ezKSC4Of8= =a4Ki -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list