Re: [gentoo-dev] Conveying important upgrade messages to user community

[Tobias Klauser]

On Tuesday 16 November 2004 14:52, Francesco Riosa wrote:

[TOFU]
>
> SuSE distro's are use to send a mail to root, one per package.

That would require to have an MTA installed by default (which, to my knowledge 
is not the case ATM). I think it's really ugly to have an MTA as a dependecy 
of portage. Besides that: How many users do know and care about mail 
in /var/mail/root?

Cheers, Tobias

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