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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24
Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 22:33:08
Message-Id: 463BB3ED.7020606@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24 by "Alexander Færøy"
1 Alexander Færøy kirjoitti:
2 > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:13:12AM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
3 >> Isn't such use case just a replacement for elog? I thought news were
4 >> supposed to be delivered before upgrading. Also "You should update your
5 >> configuration files after upgrading." sounds like something one would
6 >> read before upgrade...
7 >
8 > It'll only affect users after they upgrade.
9 >
10
11 So let's say this was a message about package foobar. If it only affects
12 users after they upgrade it would mean that new installs would get the
13 news item too, wouldn't it?. Wouldn't the proper behavior be to mark the
14 item as not applicable when it is first encountered?
15
16 Regards,
17 Petteri

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24 "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>