On 25 Sep 2008, at 15:22, Shawn Walker wrote:

> The main reason that the feed is useful now is because it clearly  
> marks
> *new* packages in the repository as being "Added".  Since we seem to  
> add
> new packages almost every time there is a new build, this is useful  
> for
> someone to find out about new software that wasn't previously  
> available
> and that an update notification wouldn't let you know about (e.g. scim
> packages).

I'd certainly hope an update notifier would tell me about such things  
too, if I asked it to.  I don't want to have to gather the information  
about updated packages and new packages from two different sources.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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