On 26/12/2016 20:24, lee wrote: > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> writes: > >> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 8:52 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> 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?
It will if you set it up that way. It's not a default because portage doesn't know your email address (unless you want to deliver mail locally to root's mbox) >> 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? I think you are conflating news with something else, perhaps elogs. Rich means to run "eselect news list". -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
