Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use eselect news items!

2009-06-27 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Dale wrote: I would like to see what you guys think about a small feature. Is there a way to put a number next to each item and then we can select by the number instead of typing the LONG name for the item? Sort of like gcc-config -l does its listing and you can set with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use eselect news items!

2009-06-27 Thread Dale
Ulrich Mueller wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Dale wrote: I would like to see what you guys think about a small feature. Is there a way to put a number next to each item and then we can select by the number instead of typing the LONG name for the item? Sort of like gcc-config

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use eselect news items!

2009-06-26 Thread Ben de Groot
AllenJB wrote: As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items (eselect news) for important changes. 2 recent changes I would suggest having news items for are the libpcre .la files issue, because it often doesn't get noticed until later when builds fail, and the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use eselect news items!

2009-06-26 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 25-06-2009 22:57:08 +0100, AllenJB wrote: As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable than elog messages (which, while I have set them up so they get emailed to me, I admit I don't always

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use eselect news items!

2009-06-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fabian Groffen wrote: On 25-06-2009 22:57:08 +0100, AllenJB wrote: As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable than elog messages (which, while I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use eselect news items!

2009-06-26 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Fabian Groffengrob...@gentoo.org wrote: On 25-06-2009 22:57:08 +0100, AllenJB wrote: As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable than elog messages (which, while I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Please use eselect news items!

2009-06-26 Thread Dale
AllenJB wrote: Hi all, As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable than elog messages (which, while I have set them up so they get emailed to me, I admit I don't always read). I think they're

[gentoo-dev] Please use eselect news items!

2009-06-25 Thread AllenJB
Hi all, As a user, I'd like to encourage developers to make use of news items (eselect news) for important changes. I find them much more noticeable than elog messages (which, while I have set them up so they get emailed to me, I admit I don't always read). I think they're also easier to go