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Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 18:11 +0100, Simon Stelling wrote: |
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>>Doesn't make much sense to me. The biggest benefit from --news over other, |
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>>traditional channels would be that it's linked to the tree, meaning, if you |
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>>emerge a new kernel version which doesn't contain devfs anymore, the ebuild |
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>>would call something like enews ${FILESDIR}/blah which would then somehow make |
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>>emerge mention it. |
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> [snip] |
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> This isn't the problem I'm trying to get solved. |
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> You're talking about a reactive news system, telling users about the |
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> consequences of their actions. I'm after a pro-active news system, |
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> telling users about what will change, so that they have the information |
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> they need to plan upgrades. |
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> We need both. |
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We definitly need this. I'm reminded of the recent apache changes, |
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which could of been much less painful if we had something like this. |
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