El dom, 14-04-2013 a las 04:08 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:23:00 +0200 > "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 14. April 2013, 10:24:18 schrieb Ryan Hill: > > > > > > Personally I think that the entire idea of only displaying messages on the > > > first install is completely asinine. What exactly is the benefit? Were > > > users complaining that we were being too helpful and they'd like us to > > > hide important messages in random places? > > > > No. They are just not reading it when the only new and relevant message is > > drowned in repetitive spam. > > So the solution is to not display them at all? New messages won't be printed > unless the maintainer uses REPLACING_VERSIONS, in which case you get exactly > the same behaviour as now, ie. "drowned in repetitive spam". All this does is > reduce the chance of the user ever seeing important information. If they > happen to miss it the first time they're SOL. Are cosmetics really a bigger > concern than keeping users informed? > >
The messages are shown the first time by elog *and* saved in /usr/share/doc/*/README.gentoo, adding the advantage of users having that docs always present without needing to re-emerge the package or manually read ebuilds
