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On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 11:59 AM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 2020-08-06 17:44, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > I'm not sure if you've noticed but there are people actively working |
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> > towards removing stale news items and trying not to dump everything |
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> > on once on a user freshly installing the system. Don't you consider |
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> > this a worthwhile goal? |
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> I don't see how this is conflicting. |
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> This news item can probably go away after 1-2 years. |
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> But for now, people who were just lucky will probably trigger this when |
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> upgrading to genkernel-4.1 on their first reboot due to switched device |
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> manager. |
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> But again: It's not a genkernel issue, so displaying that only for |
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> people who have genkernel installed would miss a bunch of users. |
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I would guess that most users do not utilize kexec at all, and this |
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news item is irrelevant for them. |
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Personally, I agree that this is not worth spamming every Gentoo user. |
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