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Josh Sled <jsled@××××××××××××.org>: |
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> >> Why not just an elog during install of the emacs-23 package itself? |
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> > Because nobody reads them |
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> If one doesn't read elog, which is at least put in the terminal during |
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> the emerge (if not sent to IM or email), why would they read news, |
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> which they need to go out of their way to find? |
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Fewer people know about the elogging functionality than about their |
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display of "You have 1 unread news item". |
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> > and you get weird errors on start-up which |
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> > will result in bug reports. |
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> Except this won't get shown until after installation anyways. |
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> Display-If-Installed: =app-editors/emacs-23* |
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> Maybe… |
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> Display-If-Installed: <app-editors/emacs-23 |
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> …instead? To show to those users that are upgrade candidates? |
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> I do wish there was a "pretend/pre-emerge notification" capability in |
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> portage for things like upgrade guides (libxml, python 2.5->2.6, |
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> gnome, xorg-1.5, &c.). I guess news gets most of it, and then some. |
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Your system won't be rendered unusable just because you updated Emacs |
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(the 23 version isn't activated by default if you do an upgrade, you |
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have 22 active besides the new one). Such I want to get people who |
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will see Emacs 23 only when it hits stable in some months. By then they |
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will have forgotten about the news item. |
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V-Li |
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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<URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> |
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