Lots of people wrote: > Various good points. Keep in mind that Gentoo users, even sysadmins, aren't expected to read -dev. That means that when things like profile changes happen they have no idea why, or what the impact will be.
That's why we have news. It seems like we put out all of about 3 news messages a year, so the average sysadmin is hardly barraged by them (unlike often-redundant elog messages). There is no harm in sending out the odd message. If our news becomes bothersome I'm sure we'll hear about it, but many users come to Gentoo because of our documentation, not because they like surprises. Sure, no need to handhold, but educated articles for educated readers is just good user relations. All that said, I'd really encourage any Gentoo user to at least follow planet. There is little that is posted there that a Gentoo user wouldn't find interesting, and often it works out as a decent substitute for news. Rich
