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 1EWlu3-0001ji-PO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:29:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA12STFG009345; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:28:29 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.201]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA12PTfn004624 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:25:30 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so495588wri for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:25:29 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NG1PygB5Ld0wKI7eMdCednhSTPcNE+42EEHoF27FPEWVUIGx/VFMWc8bOsQ7j1xErWUnSO8Cxbut9aWB8Q2qat05WQyQvYR7J7gDDfnMZxrY6zgRdJStxJIfEMnME+/D8XMu3vye68Nrggg1stiLvhBeCI06yvMgf+tbiM3PXHw= Received: by 10.54.116.8 with SMTP id o8mr789885wrc; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:25:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.110.16 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:25:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <46059ce10510311825g57be495dq591ff204eaf08c23@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:25:29 -0500 From: Dan Meltzer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting In-Reply-To: <20051101022038.6d1da09f@snowdrop.home> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <46059ce10510311808v3d2c041blaa1bb3dbc4afeaf9@mail.gmail.com> <20051101022038.6d1da09f@snowdrop.home> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jA12PTfn004624 X-Archives-Salt: 2626ce8a-5514-4e1c-9f4e-4e6cbe190ec1 X-Archives-Hash: 225baa62d5e5a585add622fd10fcdaaf That works, I suppose my point was, if you are going to be adminning from a box with a webbrowser anyways, why not just use that aforementioned webbrowser to check www.g.o? what is the benefit of news/ over that? On 10/31/05, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:08:19 -0500 Dan Meltzer > wrote: > | WRT links in file updates, this seems completely backwards. If a user > | was admining over ssh, it would be far easier for them to load www.g.o > | in their browser vs. copying link from terminal to their browser, but > | for that matter, why is ssh relevent wrt links in files, but not when > | we are talking about it being lightweight? If a user is not expected > | to have a browser to recieve the news, how can they be expected to > | have one to view doc's about it. > > The user isn't expected to have a browser on the system on which the > news item is being displayed. For example, I have a router box which > does not have lynx or X or anything like that which would still be > generating news item hits -- expecting me to install a browser on that > system to read HTML or XML content is unreasonable. However, admin work > on the router is done over ssh, and it's trivial to copy and paste a > link from the output of some command on a remote box into a firefox > window on my desktop. > > Perhaps I should add a note that news items should not simply be of a > "see this link" form, and that any links which are used should only be > for reference, not the primary source... > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) > Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org > Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list