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 masking of the "kdeprefix" use flag as this is a > fairly major change and I think it's useful for users to know why these > changes are being made. I wholeheartedly agree. Such fairly invasive changes should be brought to the attention of our users by the best means available, which certainly includes the eselect news method. I am of the opinion it was a fairly serious failure not to do so in both cases Allen mentioned. Please think of the users and inform them! Cheers, Ben
