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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
Subject: Re: Re: New eselect news item for kdeprefix
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:27:05 -0700
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Petteri Räty<betelgeuse@g.o> wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:00:35 +0300
>> Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@g.o> wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 01 July 2009 16:25:11 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:45:29 +0300
>>>>
>>>> Theo Chatzimichos <tampakrap@g.o> wrote:
>>>>> Display-If-Installed: kde-base/kdelibs
>>>> Really? Anyone who has any version of kdelibs ever?
>>> Yes, this affects kde3 and kde4 users.
>>
>> Will it also affect kde5 users?
>>
>
> "News items can be removed (by removing the news file from the main
> tree) when they are no longer relevant, if they are made obsolete by a
> future news item or after a long period of time. This is the same as the
> method used for updates entries."
>
> I would say the news item is not relevant when kde 5 comes out but of
> course it doesn't hurt to have a version specification there. Just
> noting that in general atoms without version restrictions shouldn't be a
> problem.

I think getting news items that don't apply to me is a pretty big UI
problem; it would be nice to recommend to people writing items to make
sure their atoms are bounded.

-A

>
> Regards,
> Petteri
>
>


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New eselect news item for kdeprefix
-- Theo Chatzimichos
Re: Re: New eselect news item for kdeprefix
-- Theo Chatzimichos
Re: Re: New eselect news item for kdeprefix
-- Ciaran McCreesh
Re: Re: New eselect news item for kdeprefix
-- Theo Chatzimichos
Re: Re: New eselect news item for kdeprefix
-- Ciaran McCreesh
Re: Re: New eselect news item for kdeprefix
-- Petteri Räty
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