On Sat, 5 May 2007 00:17:46 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 May 2007 17:38:43 -0500 > Steev Klimaszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > otherwise, yeah, elog does the same thing already... > > Experience has shown that news items work in delivering this kind of > information to users whereas elog doesn't. elog is a one-shot thing > that may or may not (usually the latter) actually get seen, whereas a > news item stays around until the user reads it. What experience? So far there have been no news items. The issue about elog messages being one shot things is rather outdated (at least for portage), and post-merge information is the domain of elog (as stated in the GLEP). Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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