2010/8/31 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 18:39 -0300, Guilherme M. Nogueira wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > > http://www.archlinux.org/news/502/ >> > >> > I wonder why we write news announcements about these things. People >> > don't seem to read them and ask anyway, so why bother writing the news? >> >> Because some of us read them and it's better to assume the community >> is capable of evolving. > > +1, some read them, that's why we only have these few emails rather than > dozens of emails. > > To be fair, those who infrequently update are more likely to miss > announcements. Perhaps they shouldn't be using rolling release in that > case. i always liked the idea of including any relevant announcements directly into pacman output, possibly bundling announcements right into packages themselves, and displaying the ones created between old ver -> new ver. its just text, and not many; it would compress well. while i rarely have problems, and when i do i'm adept enough to usually get it myself or find the answer, i am certainly guilty of not going to the website to read announcements (there is a ML for that tho, right?). in fact i don't think i ever have :-X, but most people, i would think, do at least look at pacman output. i'm not an advocate of noobification "features", but a feature of this type would be useful for anyone. system state management is a hot topic for me, and this is one of the things on my list for my own manager i'm working on (i don't like any package managers that exist, i want a DVCS at it's heart :-) C Anthony
