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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:27:34
Message-Id: 4A452130.9040303@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items! by Fabian Groffen
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4 Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 > On 25-06-2009 22:57:08 +0100, AllenJB wrote:
6 >> As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items
7 >> (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable
8 >> than elog messages (which, while I have set them up so they get emailed
9 >> to me, I admit I don't always read). I think they're also easier to go
10 >> back and re-read later (not everyone knows how to dig out old elog
11 >> messages).
12 >
13 > Maybe we should make an option to have portage not notice you of new
14 > news messages until you have read it to make the feature more popular.
15
16 Seem like that will mostly defeat the purpose since you'll probably
17 forget you set that option and then miss future news items. Shrug,
18 we can do it if there's demand for it though.
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21 Thanks,
22 Zac
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