weekly "new pacakges in Extras" (Was: Fedora Package Announcement List Split)

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Thu Apr 27 16:20:37 UTC 2006


Am Donnerstag, den 27.04.2006, 12:12 -0400 schrieb seth vidal:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 18:04 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 27.04.2006, 10:41 -0400 schrieb seth vidal:
> > > > It's of no use to me to see that there was a package called
> > > > abracatabra built unless I'm the packager/reviewer. If a new package
> > > > enters the system I (as a user) want to see what that package does w/o
> > > > guessing from the name. And I want to be able to separate new from
> > > > updates. For an update I'd like to know why it was updated, so the
> > > > first lines of the changelog are nice to look at.
> > > 
> > > I guess I don't think doing it in mail is useful, really. I prefer rss
> > > feeds for this kind of information. And putting changelogs and other
> > > misc info in an rss feed makes more sense - at least to me.
> > 
> > Not for me -- I don't use rss feeds normally so they would create a
> > extra hurdle for me. And mail a IMHO has a important benefit: It will
> > always land in my Inbox -- I don't have to remember to look at the feed
> > once a day.
>
> I don't really disagree.
> 
> But an rss feed has the ease of being able to be spit out into email
> automatically.

Sure, that makes sense.

CU
thl
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