El dom, 14-04-2013 a las 02:24 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 08:55:39 +0200 > Tom Wijsman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:09:05 -0600 > > Ryan Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > - Make use of readme.gentoo.eclass to make the user aware of the > > > > Gentoo Linux Kernel Upgrade Guide only the first time he emerges > > > > the package. Fixes bug #457598. > > > > > > Call me crazy, but upgrade guides seem like something you might want > > > to tell the user about during an upgrade. > > > > True, I was wondering if there is a way to show it on their first > > upgrade instead; most users would indeed not be able or forget to > > bookmark this during their handbook install. > > > > Therefore, I won't commit this patch. > > > > I wonder if Pacho can adapt the eclass to allow us to do this on the > > first upgrade, I have explicitly put him in CC so he can consider that. > > Perhaps he can also explain why he wanted to see this change happen. > > > > I thought the goal of this eclass is to get rid of repeating messages > > that are not that important from the elog. After you have installed the > > kernel twice you should be able to do it a third time. People that > > really still need the link have it either bookmarked or can look into > > that file, another concern here is that nothing mentions its existence. > > The user would have to spot it in the list of installed files, strange. > > > > If I misunderstood the goal of this eclass, sorry, it's not documented. > > I thought people were against these kind of repeating messages in elog. > > > > - http://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/readme.gentoo.eclass > > > > - Bug in discussion: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457598 > > Personally I think that the entire idea of only displaying messages on the > first install is completely asinine. What exactly is the benefit? Were users > complaining that we were being too helpful and they'd like us to hide > important > messages in random places? >
When you get tons of messages in summary.log, there are times that is easier to ignore important messages over all the less important ones
