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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:49:02
Message-Id: 4F5D1DA3.60708@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181 by William Hubbs
1 On 11.3.2012 23.43, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:28:19PM +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> On 11.3.2012 17.33, Zac Medico wrote:
4 >>> On 03/11/2012 04:03 AM, Petteri Räty wrote:
5 >>>> The Display-If-Installed atom shows the news item to stable users once
6 >>>> it's committed. I am not sure at what point does Portage show it when
7 >>>> the atom is >= so we might want to evaluate the options.
8 >>>
9 >>> It's displayed after the package is installed, before emerge exits, just
10 >>> after the message about config file updates.
11 >>
12 >> Based on this I think >= is better than < so people will get when they
13 >> actually update.
14 >
15 > That means that people won't be notified that they have the news item to
16 > read until after they install >= sys-fs/udev-181.
17 >
18 > Is that how we would want this to work?
19 >
20 > William
21
22 How do you plan to handle notifying stable users if you go with <?
23
24 Petteri

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>