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Hi, |
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Josh Sled <jsled@××××××××××××.org>: |
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> Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o> writes: |
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> > Fewer people know about the elogging functionality than about their |
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> > display of "You have 1 unread news item". |
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> Where do you expect them to see the unread news item message? |
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> Honestly curious … I don't believe portage shows them, and – looking |
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> at the Handbook – news (or elog, for that matter) are not even |
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> mentioned, though at least elog is in the example make.conf users are |
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> told to setup. |
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Portage displays "There is 1 unread news item" after a lot of actions |
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(a successful merge being one of them). Maybe a patch for the handbook |
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is in the range of possibilites to document these important features. |
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> I implore you to at least add a note in postinst; that seems the most |
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> reliable place to notify users who are installing a package about the |
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> package's effects. |
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Did so. |
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V-Li |
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-- |
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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<URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> |
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