Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

[Dan Meltzer]

On Friday 04 May 2007 8:01:58 pm Dan Meltzer wrote:
> On Friday 04 May 2007 7:52:46 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:48:19 -0400
> >
> > Dan Meltzer <hydrogen@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > > That seems like a really bad road to go down.
> > >
> > > Would it not be better to extend elog to alert people at the end of
> > > an install as well?
> >
> > Doesn't help. It's only there once, and it's easy to ignore. Users
> > don't have to explicitly mark it as read, so it's frequently not read.
> > elog is not an adequate solution.
>
> Emm, That would depend upon the viewer I'd think.  elogs are saved in a
> directory, and so the only way they would disappear is if the user chose to
> delete them (or the viewer did it for them).

Ooops, I guess they are only saved if it's explicity enabled, there goes that 
idea :/

>
> > > When I think of news I think of things that are
> > > required to do or my system will break.  That is what I want out of
> > > news.  I can't see how deprecated syntax fits that defination.  The
> > > program should warn when it finds deprecated syntax, and the users
> > > will then know.  Or if the users ignore it, then when the support is
> > > removed and the package errors, the user fixes it then without any
> > > major headache.  It sure isn't something that will break a users
> > > system utterly if its not acted upon.
> >
> > It's something that is of sufficient interest to those who will read
> > the news item that a news item is warranted.


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