On Sun, 6 May 2007 15:19:53 -0400 Dan Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 06 May 2007 3:02:38 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sun, 6 May 2007 14:53:22 -0400 > > Dan Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > One of the reasons GLEP 42 was necessary was because users > > > > *don't* read things delivered by other methods. > > > > > > And they are magically going to read the news? > > Experience being two news items about one package. Expand this to a > tree size, where the user has around 400-500 packages. If they get > news about changes that will increase their experience for each one > of these, they are looking at reading the New York Times of gentoo > every day. It's not going to happen.
And, if that happens (which it won't), we'll have more experience and we can evaluate future news items based upon that. A more realistic view for your typical user is less than a news item per week. > > Paludis users do not consider that news item trivial. > > If I was a paludis user I would considder this trivial. The same > information is availible a) from the package itself. b) from the > changelog, and c) it still works without the change! But you aren't, and those who are disagree. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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