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 1EWGxJ-0008VM-45 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:26:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9UHNOlq031784; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:23:24 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9UHI1QX031974 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:18:02 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i34so393365wra for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:18:01 -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=kOfyEyyR74lP0sxx7H7poGZLZ2MLeWc1jubPwWVC1CpnqYNP7lyP6cZkkMoDwSn31Q9kdDDOpZDOLsAS/YJdZOU7j19NTfU31oiouvAltr1Oj86tX0zLIFogUNOPMgcV2MBVJdRIIT+L6MgOJLbKOvK/9QrBKF83hoDNEB7uRWQ= Received: by 10.65.54.18 with SMTP id g18mr871863qbk; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:18:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.203.6 with HTTP; Sun, 30 Oct 2005 09:18:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <c3d5f3800510300918n757a4e48ge31c1d049c872e6b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:18:01 +0000 From: Qian Qiao <qian.qiao@gmail.com> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users In-Reply-To: <200510301754.45823.m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> 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: <200510301642.39469.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <20051030090623.GA12148@superlupo.rechner> <200510301754.45823.m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j9UHI1QX031974 X-Archives-Salt: 85bf696d-abd6-4392-83f0-c2c1b6d52553 X-Archives-Hash: 49a1fca613fb92487f987530f1505d62 On 10/30/05, Michiel de Bruijne <m.debruijne@hccnet.nl> wrote: > On Sunday 30 October 2005 10:06, Wernfried Haas wrote: > > 4) Forums. We have the News and Announcements box on the forums and we > > will set sticky threads upon request. In fact we even stick threads > > and posts announcements if we encounter something worth mentioning > > in our opinion. Since we may not notice everything feel free to > > contact us in case you have some information worth sharing. > > 5) Make important news available in the tree just like GLSA's. With emerge > --news you can see the relevant newsitems based on your installed packages > just like emerge --security (future portage version?). /signed, :) The emerge --news is quite worth considering, and on p.g.o, stuart mentioned having emerge to produce outputs like this after a sync: <quote> # emerge sync <Portage syncs the tree> * Important: 3 config files in /etc need updating. * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. * Important: there are 5 unread news items. * Type emerge --news to read news about changes to Gentoo. </quote> which I think is also a brilliant idea. Just my .02 USD as a user. -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list