On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Fabian Groffen<grob...@gentoo.org> 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 them up so they get emailed >> to me, I admit I don't always read). I think they're also easier to go >> back and re-read later (not everyone knows how to dig out old elog >> messages). > > Maybe we should make an option to have portage not notice you of new > news messages until you have read it to make the feature more popular. > > I personally felt after the java-config news message that it's more of a > bugger than a help, since I have many systems, and on all of them I had > to read it to get rid of the "waiting news message".
Well that how it was designed ;) But seriously if you have N machines of the same config; it would make sense to just turn off or ignore notifications on N-1 machines and just always read news on one machine (maybe the canary machine). But if they all have different configs and installed packages; turning off notifications could be dangerous ;) -A > > And no, excluding them in the rsync sync is not the option, as I want to > be able to read them if I don't recall the details any more... > > > just my 2 cents why I am avoiding adding news messages these days > > > -- > Fabian Groffen > Gentoo on a different level > >
