Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24

[Dan Meltzer]

On Friday 04 May 2007 7:52:46 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:48:19 -0400
>
> Dan Meltzer <hydrogen@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > That seems like a really bad road to go down.
> >
> > Would it not be better to extend elog to alert people at the end of
> > an install as well?
>
> Doesn't help. It's only there once, and it's easy to ignore. Users
> don't have to explicitly mark it as read, so it's frequently not read.
> elog is not an adequate solution.

Emm, That would depend upon the viewer I'd think.  elogs are saved in a 
directory, and so the only way they would disappear is if the user chose to 
delete them (or the viewer did it for them).  
>
> > When I think of news I think of things that are
> > required to do or my system will break.  That is what I want out of
> > news.  I can't see how deprecated syntax fits that defination.  The
> > program should warn when it finds deprecated syntax, and the users
> > will then know.  Or if the users ignore it, then when the support is
> > removed and the package errors, the user fixes it then without any
> > major headache.  It sure isn't something that will break a users
> > system utterly if its not acted upon.
>
> It's something that is of sufficient interest to those who will read
> the news item that a news item is warranted.


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