Re: [gentoo-dev] 2024-02-26-debianutils-drops-installkernel-dep: add news item

[Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org>]

On 27/02/2024 03:28, Oskari Pirhonen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 22:39:13 +0000, Lucio Sauer wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 06:13:32PM +0100, Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan wrote:
>>> Previously sys-kernel/installkernel was implicitly installed on many systems
>>> via a dependency in sys-apps/debianutils. This dependency was toggled
>>> by the "installkernel" USE flag, and enabled by default.
>>>
>>> sys-apps/debianutils was in turn pulled in by app-misc/ca-certificates,
>>> an essential package installed on many systems. However, this
>>> dependency was recently removed.
>>
>> In my opinion, the last sentence reads as if app-misc/ca-certificates was
>> recently removed. I suggest rewording the passage as follows:
>>
>> Until recently, sys-apps/debianutils was in turn pulled in by
>> app-misc/ca-certificates, an essential package installed on many systems.
>> This is no longer the case.
>>
>>> As a result many users may find that ...
>>
> 
> Agreed. I was confused for a second reading it since it was the first
> I'd heard of ca-certificates being removed before I realized that was
> not the case at all.
> 
> - Oskari


Yes I see how this wording can be confusing. Fixed locally and in the 
GitHub PR, Thanks.

Best regards,
Andrew