Christian Faulhammer <fa...@gentoo.org> writes: > Fewer people know about the elogging functionality than about their > display of "You have 1 unread news item".
Where do you expect them to see the unread news item message? Honestly curious … I don't believe portage shows them, and – looking at the Handbook – news (or elog, for that matter) are not even mentioned, though at least elog is in the example make.conf users are told to setup. > Such I want to get people who > will see Emacs 23 only when it hits stable in some months. By then they > will have forgotten about the news item. In my workflow, I'd not see the news item until the next time I run my "get up to date" script, a week later. Presumably well after I'd already played around with the shiny new emacs-23 and encountered the breakage. I implore you to at least add a note in postinst; that seems the most reliable place to notify users who are installing a package about the package's effects. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
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