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On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 17:14 +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: |
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> On 2020-08-06 14:22, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > > - I am not 100% happy with the title but the 50 char limit |
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> > > doesn't allow any more details. |
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> > Yes, the title doesn't say a thing why would anyone want to read this |
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> > news item or not. |
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> Maybe |
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> > Be aware of possible reboot problems |
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> instead? |
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> > > - No Display-If condition because it is neither a genkernel nor |
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> > > kexec-tools issue. We maybe even have additional packages |
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> > > which are appending to kernel command-line I am not aware of. |
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> > Showing this news on all old and new Gentoo systems makes little sense. |
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> > Either someone is newly affected, then Display-if should determine it, |
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> > or someone is *not* newly affected, then you're either telling him |
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> > something he already knows or something that is of little value to him. |
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> > News items should be precisely this -- news. Not random pieces of |
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> > information you've just discovered and want to share with everyone. |
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> > This is what documentation is about, and it should be in some kernel- |
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> > related piece of documentation (handbook?) and not scattered around |
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> > in news items. |
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> Sure, you are basically repeating what I wrote in my prolog. |
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> But the reason why I drafted that news item despite of this is the |
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> consideration that an unbootable system outweigh the risk to waste |
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> anyone's time to read something even if they are not affected. Note that |
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> news items will appear through multiple channels. So if this will help |
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> someone who didn't read documentation before or just didn't realize the |
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> obvious risk he/she is taking when using non-persistent names ("It |
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> worked that way for me past 15 years!") I believe it has served its purpose. |
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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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-- |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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