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On 25-06-2009 22:57:08 +0100, AllenJB wrote: |
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> As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items |
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> (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable |
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> than elog messages (which, while I have set them up so they get emailed |
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> to me, I admit I don't always read). I think they're also easier to go |
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> back and re-read later (not everyone knows how to dig out old elog |
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> messages). |
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Maybe we should make an option to have portage not notice you of new |
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news messages until you have read it to make the feature more popular. |
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I personally felt after the java-config news message that it's more of a |
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bugger than a help, since I have many systems, and on all of them I had |
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to read it to get rid of the "waiting news message". |
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And no, excluding them in the rsync sync is not the option, as I want to |
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be able to read them if I don't recall the details any more... |
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just my 2 cents why I am avoiding adding news messages these days |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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