On Friday 04 May 2007 7:52:46 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2007 19:48:19 -0400 > > Dan Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That seems like a really bad road to go down. > > > > Would it not be better to extend elog to alert people at the end of > > an install as well? > > Doesn't help. It's only there once, and it's easy to ignore. Users > don't have to explicitly mark it as read, so it's frequently not read. > elog is not an adequate solution.
Emm, That would depend upon the viewer I'd think. elogs are saved in a directory, and so the only way they would disappear is if the user chose to delete them (or the viewer did it for them). > > > When I think of news I think of things that are > > required to do or my system will break. That is what I want out of > > news. I can't see how deprecated syntax fits that defination. The > > program should warn when it finds deprecated syntax, and the users > > will then know. Or if the users ignore it, then when the support is > > removed and the package errors, the user fixes it then without any > > major headache. It sure isn't something that will break a users > > system utterly if its not acted upon. > > It's something that is of sufficient interest to those who will read > the news item that a news item is warranted. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
