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On 03/30/2011 01:36 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:36:00AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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>> USE="hal" is masked in base/use.mask, but unmasked for kde-base/solid |
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>> and app-cdr/k3b in base/package.use.mask pending on KDE 4.6.x stabilization. |
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> Why didn't you use the news utility to inform users about this change |
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> and possible transition steps/migration guide? This is a rather big |
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> change that might (or may not) require a bit of effort from non-power |
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Let's stop here. The mask has effect only on some 5-6 packages in |
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tree, and not even that many if you count only latest. The big changes |
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happened long before this when each desktop stopped supporting it and it |
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falls under the umbrella of said desktops to inform their users if they |
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feel it's necessary. |
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> users to migrate their systems to the new backend. A short summary of |
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> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html |
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> would be nice but I guess it is too late for that since another |
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> major change occurred without advertising it properly to our users. |
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I don't like the idea of using unofficial forums posts in official news |
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items. That said, tampakrap converted the post to guidexml once, but |
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it needs polishing up. Volunteers are required to clean it up. |
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That said, I still support the idea of news item, just not the idea of |
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you trying to dump the responsibility from the desktop maintainers to me... |
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- Samuli |
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