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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:50:41
Message-Id: 43655AE9.4000806@exceedtech.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users by Qian Qiao
1 Qian Qiao wrote:
2
3 >/signed, :)
4 >
5 >The emerge --news is quite worth considering, and on p.g.o, stuart
6 >mentioned having emerge to produce outputs like this after a sync:
7 >
8 ><quote>
9 ># emerge sync
10 ><Portage syncs the tree>
11 >
12 >* Important: 3 config files in /etc need updating.
13 >* Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files.
14 >
15 >* Important: there are 5 unread news items.
16 >* Type emerge --news to read news about changes to Gentoo.
17 ></quote>
18 >
19 >which I think is also a brilliant idea.
20 >
21 >Just my .02 USD as a user.
22 >
23 >-- Joe
24 >
25 >
26
27 I like the --news idea and brilliant is a good way to describe it. That
28 would also be so cool. If you are not syncing you don't need to change
29 anything but if you are, you get to see what changes are made. That
30 would be good since some changes, like devfs to udev, are really good
31 but do require some input on the user end. That is one reason I
32 subscribed here. Things are changing and I miss it until something
33 stops working. Catch-up is a bit tough.
34
35 My $.02 worth and that ain't much.
36
37 Dale
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