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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:16:12
Message-Id: 20120311231517.GA7994@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181 by "Petteri Räty"
1 On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:48:19PM +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
2 > On 11.3.2012 23.43, William Hubbs wrote:
3 > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:28:19PM +0200, Petteri Räty wrote:
4 > >> On 11.3.2012 17.33, Zac Medico wrote:
5 > >>> On 03/11/2012 04:03 AM, Petteri Räty wrote:
6 > >>>> The Display-If-Installed atom shows the news item to stable users once
7 > >>>> it's committed. I am not sure at what point does Portage show it when
8 > >>>> the atom is >= so we might want to evaluate the options.
9 > >>>
10 > >>> It's displayed after the package is installed, before emerge exits, just
11 > >>> after the message about config file updates.
12 > >>
13 > >> Based on this I think >= is better than < so people will get when they
14 > >> actually update.
15 > >
16 > > That means that people won't be notified that they have the news item to
17 > > read until after they install >= sys-fs/udev-181.
18 > >
19 > > Is that how we would want this to work?
20 > >
21 > > William
22 >
23 > How do you plan to handle notifying stable users if you go with <?
24
25 I was thinking of another news item once we are ready to go stable.
26
27 What do you think?
28
29 William

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: newsitem: unmasking udev-181 "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>