Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Jason Zaman <perfinion@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc runscript transition (draft 3)
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:08:20
Message-Id: 20160824120805.GB20943@meriadoc.perfinion.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc runscript transition (draft 3) by Kent Fredric
1 On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 07:32:05PM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:57:43 -0500
3 > William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > I thought about dropping the version number from the
6 > > display-if-installed line, but that doesn't make sense because it means
7 > > that everyone, including all new installs of OpenRC after this version,
8 > > would have to read the newsitem.
9 > >
10 > > William
11 > >
12 >
13 > That concern is in the wrong priority.
14 >
15 > "Your system might break" is more important than "ugh, annoying news items"
16 >
17 > Viewing the news item once per clean install is still less of a "Problem" than
18 I remember some time back there was talk about marking some news items
19 as read in new stage3's. That basically removes this annoyance
20 completely. I don't know how that ended up tho, maybe we should re-visit
21 it?
22
23 -- Jason