Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

[Ben de Groot]

AllenJB wrote:
> As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items
> (eselect news) for important changes.

> 2 recent changes I would suggest having news items for are the libpcre
> .la files issue, because it often doesn't get noticed until later when
> builds fail, and the masking of the "kdeprefix" use flag as this is a
> fairly major change and I think it's useful for users to know why these
> changes are being made.

I wholeheartedly agree. Such fairly invasive changes should be brought
to the attention of our users by the best means available, which
certainly includes the eselect news method. I am of the opinion it was a
fairly serious failure not to do so in both cases Allen mentioned.

Please think of the users and inform them!

Cheers,
Ben