El sáb, 22-12-2012 a las 21:46 +0000, Markos Chandras escribió:
> On 22 December 2012 09:26, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > After seeing:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440214
> >
> > Looking to a lot of its blockers shows that we are using "elog" messages
> > for informing people about configuration (like pointing people to
> > external links to get proper way of configuring things, tell them to add
> > to some system groups...). I thought that maybe this kind of information
> > could be simply included in a canonical file under /usr/share/doc/
> > package dir called, for example, CONFIGURATION or SETUP. We would them
> > point people (now with a news item, for the long term provably a note to
> > handbook to newcomers would be nice) to that file to configure their
> > setups. The main advantages I see:
> > - We will flood less summary.log ;)
> > - The information to configure the package is always present while
> > package is installed, now, if we remove merge produced logs, people will
> > need to reemerge the package or read directly the ebuild
> >
> > What do you think?
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong but are you suggesting we drop the elog
> messages altogether? 

No, only to drop its usage for configuration stuff (like that kind of
message telling you to go to page XXXX to know how to configure your
app)

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