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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes: |
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> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 8:52 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote: |
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>> I didn't see portage or anything else give me any instructions or |
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>> warnings about this. The names just suddenly changed, and that screwed |
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>> things up. |
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> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2013-03-29-udev-upgrade.html |
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> This shows up in eselect news list (and so on), and portage will tell |
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I never use that because I find it very awkward. Why doesn't portage |
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just send me the news by email? |
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> you when you have unread news items. Note that it only shows up if |
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> you have <udev-201 installed, but all news is in that repository. |
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> Generally you want to read those BEFORE you go installing packages, |
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> since it may pertain to a package you're about to update. |
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Updating usually affects over 200 packages. What's a good way to read |
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the news in advance? |
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> The original news item was less detailed, and IMO probably a bit |
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> easier to read. Additional stuff was added to it later from the looks |
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> of it. It isn't hard to read per-se, but there is a lot more going on |
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> in it. |
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> If you want to disable predictable network names then that is covered in #4. |
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