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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Monday 16 February 2009 20:36:02 Dale wrote: |
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>> Well, it is done now. You know what would be nice, a mailing list that |
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>> announces these new "features". Maybe one that only devs can post to |
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>> but anyone can receive. Just a little note that something new is coming |
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>> and what it does would be really nice. |
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> Well, there sort-of is something like that already - the Changelog. The |
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> trouble with news-announce-change lists is that no-one can ever make up their |
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> mind as to what goes on it and what doesn't, so they end up sooner or later |
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> being a dump for the entire Changelog (which you already have :-) ) |
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> I've been caught out by this stuff too many times. Now I always read |
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> /var/portage/profiles/package.mask before an update. With a bit of practise |
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> anf doing it frequently, you get a good idea of what parts of the tree are |
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> active and where changes are being made. Helps with predicting stuff :-) |
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Yew a better guru than me tho. ;-) |
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lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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