Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 (Was: Getting Important Updates To Users)

[Stuart Herbert]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 21:37 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> So what's the point of the ChangeLog again?

Isn't it to record specific changes that have happened to a specific
package?

News items may be about changes that have not yet happened - to allow
users to plan ahead and prepare appropriately.

News items may also be about (possibly future) changes where there is no
one corresponding package; equally a news item may be relevant for a
large number of packages.  In both of those circumstances, looking for
news in a package-specific ChangeLog doesn't seem right to me.  Feels to
me to be both bad engineering and bad SCM practice.

> I'm really just against having it in emerge, especially with the current
> suggestion of portage just doing a little bit of maintenance work for
> external tools and nothing else.

I can't think of any other place where we have every Gentoo user's
attention to the same extent that we do when emerge outputs that
reminder about any CONFIG_PROTECTed packages that need attention.

It's the one and only place where we can reach every user.  That is the
whole purpose of this idea.  We're trying to deliver the news to 100% of
the user base, or as near as damn it.

Best regards,
Stu
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