Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

[Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org>]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:44:46 +0200
> Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Why did I knew that this argument would come? Maybe because it's your
>> default reaction to any opposition.
> 
> What, providing evidence to the contrary? What more do you want?
> 

This is such a hilarious thread; so let me start by half agreeing with
Ciaran here.  The whole point of news items is to only hit affected
users with news.  So in this case it doesn't particularly matter the
number of news items, if there are a 1000 Paludis related news items,
only Paludis users are affected, and they can then complain about having
to read a bunch of items related to Paludis.  This I can agree with.

There is a minor point about item size and quantity and forcing users to
rsync news that isn't relevant to them.  The reality is that those news
items could become relevant in the future; so they must be downloaded
anyway.  I think that keeping news to a minimum is a good thing; but in
this case I'm not going to argue about one news item.

However if Paludis does say, a news item every release, I will begin to
wonder at the number of 'critical compatibility' problems in Paludis,
since I hold most of the Paludis in high regard and I know they can
produce software without critical issues.

Fighting over one news item is I think pointless.  If there is a trend
then there is at least data to back it.  Otherwise you are arguing over
specific bits in a file with a few thousands characters in it.

-Alec
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