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On 24-07-2012 09:24:03 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> I guess this is a matter of opinion, but on Gentoo I don't think we're |
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> really at much risk of driving people away by OVER-communicating. Our |
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> users are used to things changing and a certain level of |
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> fix-it-yourself, but if we know something is going to cause no end of |
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> questions it only makes sense to throw the users a bone once in a |
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> while. |
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The way in which news items aggressively request your attention, makes |
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them something that should only be used if it's obvious it's important |
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for the user (e.g. postfix thing for postfix users). |
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This particular change seems more something for -announce, note in the |
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handbook, and something like the suggestion of a file giving a nice |
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hint. |
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My impression is that the message is absolutely useless to the majority |
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of users on their *already installed* system, so don't make everyone |
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have to see the news item notice a couple of times and run `eselect news |
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read` just for this. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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