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>>>>> On Sun, 26 Jul 2020, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Definitely not a "heads up" on the mailing list - that is not an |
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> appropriate way to communicate anything to users - not even devs are |
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> required to read this list. |
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> The two appropriate ways to communicate something like this are |
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> einfo/ewarn/etc or news. Never hurts to use news. Ideally I'd point |
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> to a substitute, and I'd suggest one myself if I were aware of one... |
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Even more appropriate would be to enable the flag with an IUSE default. |
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The ebuild could still display an ewarn message pointing out the alleged |
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security issue. |
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Ulrich |
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