Re: Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 24-07-2012 08:01:40 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>> 3) That news item about udev-181 and a unified /usr is still greeting
>> new users...and it's still claiming an unmask of 2012-03-19, which is
>> three months ago. It's quite confusing in that it claims an event is
>> going to occur, in the past, and it still hasn't occurred.
>
> ... and how about that --as-needed one? so annoying, it usually doesn't
> even apply to the systems I'm installing on.

I'll agree that something needs to be done to clean up past news items
that are obsolete.  Can we go back and make them expire or just delete
them?  Yesterday's news isn't news.

I guess this is a matter of opinion, but on Gentoo I don't think we're
really at much risk of driving people away by OVER-communicating.  Our
users are used to things changing and a certain level of
fix-it-yourself, but if we know something is going to cause no end of
questions it only makes sense to throw the users a bone once in a
while.

Rich