Hi, Josh Sled <js...@asynchronous.org>:
> Christian Faulhammer <fa...@gentoo.org> writes: > > Fewer people know about the elogging functionality than about their > > display of "You have 1 unread news item". > > Where do you expect them to see the unread news item message? > Honestly curious … I don't believe portage shows them, and – looking > at the Handbook – news (or elog, for that matter) are not even > mentioned, though at least elog is in the example make.conf users are > told to setup. Portage displays "There is 1 unread news item" after a lot of actions (a successful merge being one of them). Maybe a patch for the handbook is in the range of possibilites to document these important features. > I implore you to at least add a note in postinst; that seems the most > reliable place to notify users who are installing a package about the > package's effects. Did so. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode <URL:http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/>
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