Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Old news items

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

On 12/16/2015 08:26 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote:
> On a fresh amd64 stage3 a user is presented with fourteen news items to
> read, and three[1][2][3] of these are directly related to Portage.
> 
> In order to improve the out-of-box experience, please review them for
> relevance and consider removing or restricting any that are not.
> 
> 1:
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2012-05-21-portage-config-protect-if-modified/2012-05-21-portage-config-protect-if-modified.en.txt
> 2:
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2013-06-07-portage-preserve-libs-default/2013-06-07-portage-preserve-libs-default.en.txt

Thanks, I've dropped the above 2 items.

> 3:
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/tree/2015-02-04-portage-sync-changes/2015-02-04-portage-sync-changes.en.txt

This one is probably still somewhat relevant. However, we should
probably deprecate PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY (with loud warnings from
portage when they are set), and possibly send out another news item for
that.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac