03.11.12 09:04, Ben de Groot написав(ла): > On 31 October 2012 23:17, Chris Reffett <creff...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Basically, I would rather the user get too many >> elog messages than not enough, since I feel that a lot of people skip >> over them anyway and so the "only display once" method makes it far >> too easy for important messages to get lost in the shuffle. > > Did you ever consider *why* so many users skip over elog messages? > Don't you think that could be because most of these messages of > useless to them, or they have already seem them many times? > > I think we need to come up with a better policy regarding elog > messages, which would improve the signal to noise ratio. >
Yes, it would be really great if messages that are not relevant for upgrading of a package will be shown only for the first install. For example, I've just finished upgrading of Gentoo on my notebook and I was spammed with heaps of messages. They are for 10 packages. From them messages for net-misc/dhcpcd, net-misc/tor, sci-physics/root, mail-client/thunderbird, www-client/firefox and sci-libs/scipy are typical and not relevant for update. It means for 6 from 10 packages (Only message for dev-libs/boost is quite original with its red color )) ). It is of course not very important issue, but it is quite annoying.
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