On Sunday 06 May 2007 3:53:47 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 6 May 2007 15:43:45 -0400
>
> Dan Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > No, I've read the other threads.  You've not explained how this is a
> > critical update that requires a news item.  You've said repeatedly in
> > response to related questions that your experience with news for one
> > package in one overlay used by a small subset of users that uses said
> > package recieved good feedback, and that they would like to be
> > informed of changes in the future. You were informed that elog can do
> > just that, and you said repeatedly that elog is not sufficient
> > because its not loggged by default.   You could easily make elog
> > logged by default in paludis, and that would achieve the same result
> > as a news item.  What did I forget?
>
> Er, making elog logged by default would not solve the "requires an
> explicit read" problem. Making elog require an explicit read would
> be far too annoying because most elog notices are noise. We've been
> over this already.

Not if one filters it properly.  ELOG_CLASSES="warn error" sounds like a sane 
default to me.  
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