On Sat, 05 May 2007 16:15:33 +0200
Jakub Moc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You seriously intend to use elog across lots of ebuilds rather than
> > a single news item?
>
> Yeah, I seriously think package documentation belongs to tarballs and
> gets installed to /usr/share/docs/${PF} - not to gentoo-x86 repository
> where you are forcing every single user to download such stuff via
> rsync and have it sitting on their disk even if they don't use the
> package at all.
Then you should work on a partial sync implementation.
> And if you need a pointer to new features, a simple 'elog "Read the
> NEWS/Changelog in /usr/share/doc/${PF}" or a link to a website is
> definitely more appropriate that abusing critical news for howtos and
> new features announcement.
Except that then the news item won't be read by most of the affected
users.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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