Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
Oh I should do that then. > It's not a default because portage > doesn't know your email address (unless you want to deliver mail locally > to root's mbox) It could simply ask me. Now I need to figure out how to make it send mails. >>> 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". Yes, and that doesn't show me news before I sync, or does it?
