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Hi all, |
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As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items |
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(eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable |
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than elog messages (which, while I have set them up so they get emailed |
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to me, I admit I don't always read). I think they're also easier to go |
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back and re-read later (not everyone knows how to dig out old elog |
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messages). |
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2 recent changes I would suggest having news items for are the libpcre |
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.la files issue, because it often doesn't get noticed until later when |
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builds fail, and the masking of the "kdeprefix" use flag as this is a |
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fairly major change and I think it's useful for users to know why these |
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changes are being made. |
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Another case is that prior to it's masking, the "kdeprefix" use flag was |
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deprecated, with only an elog message on every kde package to notify |
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users, resulting in users who have their elog messages emailed to them |
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receiving a very large number of emails all with the same content - I |
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would also suggest news items in such cases in future. |
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Thanks to all the developers who worked to bring us this long awaited |
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feature - I think it's brilliant, so please use it! |
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AllenJB |
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