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From: "Nathan L. Adams" <nadams@××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:00:35
Message-Id: 436B8475.7070602@ieee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting by Paul de Vrieze
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4 Paul de Vrieze wrote:
5 > On Friday 04 November 2005 14:38, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
6 >
7 >>Paul de Vrieze wrote:
8 >>
9 >>>What is worse is that some
10 >>>users might not update for a prolongued time (6 months). At that time
11 >>>they will not find the information in the erata list anymore. But
12 >>>they will get the RELEVANT news delivered by emerge/enews.
13 >>
14 >>Why would a "SomeSQL 1.0 to 1.1" guide ever need to dissappear? Surely
15 >>errata.g.o would have archiving/searching. But I do see your point
16 >>about emerge filtering out the unwanted stuff.
17 >
18 >
19 > It would be hidden in the forrest. Even if I did a search on SomeSQL, it
20 > might return a number of news items on SomeSQL. That is besides the fact
21 > that I have 737 packages installed. I'm not going to search news on all
22 > of them. Archiving would of course be provided, but searching is not
23 > usefull for updating.
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25 You update all 737 packages with each emerge? I don't see any validity
26 in your point; a nice http://errata.g.o/ site with archived guides and
27 search wouldn't preclude 'emerge --news' in any way.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>