Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-27 Thread Dale
Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Dale wrote: >> > > >> I would like to see what you guys think about a small feature. Is >> there a way to put a number next to each item and then we can select >> by the number instead of typing the LONG name for the item? Sort o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-26 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Dale wrote: > I would like to see what you guys think about a small feature. Is > there a way to put a number next to each item and then we can select > by the number instead of typing the LONG name for the item? Sort of > like gcc-config -l does its listing and you can

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-26 Thread Dale
AllenJB wrote: > Hi all, > > As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items > (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable > than elog messages (which, while I have set them up so they get > emailed to me, I admit I don't always read). I think they'r

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-26 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 25-06-2009 22:57:08 +0100, AllenJB wrote: >> As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items >> (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable >> than elog messages (which, while I have set th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fabian Groffen wrote: > On 25-06-2009 22:57:08 +0100, AllenJB wrote: >> As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items >> (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable >> than elog messages (which, whil

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-26 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 25-06-2009 22:57:08 +0100, AllenJB wrote: > As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items > (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable > than elog messages (which, while I have set them up so they get emailed > to me, I admit I don't always

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-26 Thread Ben de Groot
AllenJB wrote: > As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items > (eselect news) for important changes. > 2 recent changes I would suggest having news items for are the libpcre > .la files issue, because it often doesn't get noticed until later when > builds fail, and the m

[gentoo-dev] Please use "eselect news" items!

2009-06-25 Thread AllenJB
Hi all, As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable than elog messages (which, while I have set them up so they get emailed to me, I admit I don't always read). I think they're also easier to go b