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On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:48:19 -0400 |
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Dan Meltzer <hydrogen@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> That seems like a really bad road to go down. |
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> Would it not be better to extend elog to alert people at the end of |
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> an install as well? |
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Doesn't help. It's only there once, and it's easy to ignore. Users |
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don't have to explicitly mark it as read, so it's frequently not read. |
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elog is not an adequate solution. |
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> When I think of news I think of things that are |
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> required to do or my system will break. That is what I want out of |
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> news. I can't see how deprecated syntax fits that defination. The |
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> program should warn when it finds deprecated syntax, and the users |
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> will then know. Or if the users ignore it, then when the support is |
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> removed and the package errors, the user fixes it then without any |
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> major headache. It sure isn't something that will break a users |
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> system utterly if its not acted upon. |
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It's something that is of sufficient interest to those who will read |
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the news item that a news item is warranted. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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