Rich Freeman <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 8:52 PM, lee <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I didn't see portage or anything else give me any instructions or >> warnings about this. The names just suddenly changed, and that screwed >> things up. >> > > https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2013-03-29-udev-upgrade.html > > This shows up in eselect news list (and so on), and portage will tell
I never use that because I find it very awkward. Why doesn't portage just send me the news by email? > you when you have unread news items. Note that it only shows up if > you have <udev-201 installed, but all news is in that repository. > > Generally you want to read those BEFORE you go installing packages, > since it may pertain to a package you're about to update. Updating usually affects over 200 packages. What's a good way to read the news in advance? > The original news item was less detailed, and IMO probably a bit > easier to read. Additional stuff was added to it later from the looks > of it. It isn't hard to read per-se, but there is a lot more going on > in it. > > If you want to disable predictable network names then that is covered in #4.
