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On 10/30/05, Michiel de Bruijne <m.debruijne@××××××.nl> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 30 October 2005 10:06, Wernfried Haas wrote: |
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> > 4) Forums. We have the News and Announcements box on the forums and we |
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> > will set sticky threads upon request. In fact we even stick threads |
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> > and posts announcements if we encounter something worth mentioning |
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> > in our opinion. Since we may not notice everything feel free to |
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> > contact us in case you have some information worth sharing. |
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> 5) Make important news available in the tree just like GLSA's. With emerge |
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> --news you can see the relevant newsitems based on your installed packages |
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> just like emerge --security (future portage version?). |
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/signed, :) |
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The emerge --news is quite worth considering, and on p.g.o, stuart |
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mentioned having emerge to produce outputs like this after a sync: |
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# emerge sync |
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<Portage syncs the tree> |
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* Important: 3 config files in /etc need updating. |
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* Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files. |
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* Important: there are 5 unread news items. |
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* Type emerge --news to read news about changes to Gentoo. |
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which I think is also a brilliant idea. |
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Just my .02 USD as a user. |
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-- Joe |
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Those who can count, and those who can't. |
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