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On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Fabian Groffen<grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 25-06-2009 22:57:08 +0100, AllenJB wrote: |
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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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> Maybe we should make an option to have portage not notice you of new |
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> news messages until you have read it to make the feature more popular. |
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> I personally felt after the java-config news message that it's more of a |
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> bugger than a help, since I have many systems, and on all of them I had |
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> to read it to get rid of the "waiting news message". |
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Well that how it was designed ;) |
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But seriously if you have N machines of the same config; it would make |
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sense to just turn off or ignore notifications on N-1 machines and |
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just always read news on one machine (maybe the canary machine). But |
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if they all have different configs and installed packages; turning off |
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notifications could be dangerous ;) |
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-A |
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> And no, excluding them in the rsync sync is not the option, as I want to |
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> be able to read them if I don't recall the details any more... |
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> just my 2 cents why I am avoiding adding news messages these days |
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> -- |
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> Fabian Groffen |
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> Gentoo on a different level |
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