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From: Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 12:57:19
Message-Id: 463C7E5B.2090203@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh napsal(a):
2 > On Sat, 5 May 2007 10:30:40 +0200
3 > Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote:
4 >> And given that the GLEP specifically states that news items are not
5 >> suposed to replace the usual postinst einfo/elog messages I'm tempted
6 >> to call this an abuse of the news framework.
7 >
8 > The usual postinst messages are inadequate for this situation.
9
10 For what situation? Changing * to */* is a bunch of config files (as far
11 as I've been told, paludis warns about this deprecated syntax anyway)?
12
13 If we are going to abuse "critical news reporting" feature for such
14 trivialities, most users are going to ignore the noise pretty soon.
15
16
17 --
18 Best regards,
19
20 Jakub Moc
21 mailto:jakub@g.o
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26 ... still no signature ;)

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