On 03/30/2011 01:36 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:36:00AM +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> USE="hal" is masked in base/use.mask, but unmasked for kde-base/solid >> and app-cdr/k3b in base/package.use.mask pending on KDE 4.6.x stabilization. >> > > Why didn't you use the news utility to inform users about this change > and possible transition steps/migration guide? This is a rather big > change that might (or may not) require a bit of effort from non-power
Let's stop here. The mask has effect only on some 5-6 packages in tree, and not even that many if you count only latest. The big changes happened long before this when each desktop stopped supporting it and it falls under the umbrella of said desktops to inform their users if they feel it's necessary. > users to migrate their systems to the new backend. A short summary of > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html > would be nice but I guess it is too late for that since another > major change occurred without advertising it properly to our users. I don't like the idea of using unofficial forums posts in official news items. That said, tampakrap converted the post to guidexml once, but it needs polishing up. Volunteers are required to clean it up. That said, I still support the idea of news item, just not the idea of you trying to dump the responsibility from the desktop maintainers to me... - Samuli
