That’s not the first post about elog, previously Gilles (eva) posted an excellent entry about that (he was a slightly angry probably :p). All these entries are published in order to warn users and they have its importance…So based on that fact it would be really nice if users start reading them \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
Last week, I did read at least 4 bugs about a problem due the newer version of shared-mime-info (which includes a new database format)… If you as users would read your elogs, guess what? Yes you would find the solution in elog messages.<\/p>\n
[b][size=15]Important…why ?[\/size][\/b]<\/p>\n
When a developer has a important message to deliver to a set of users for a given package, usually he uses elog (elog is logged => no excuses..).
\nConsider the previous example with shared-mime-info, you will have a lot of problems when you try to open some files (typically gnome\/kde startup) which would have not happened if you have a look at your logs.<\/p>\n
[b][size=15]awesome… but how I can read them ?[\/size][\/b]<\/p>\n
That’s seriously simple :
\n[list=1]
\n[*] If you’re a geek who loves GTK+ based applications (like me :p) have a look at elogviewer
\n[*] Use eread (c.f: man eread)
\n[\/list]\n<\/p>\n
But for our sanity and peace in our souls “READ THEM” before you post a bug \ud83d\ude42 .
\nThat will help us a lot, by implicitly reducing the number of useless bugs, and in this way, we will not have to repeat things 50 times.<\/p>\n
have fun with gentoo \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
edit: many thanks to scarab for typos & grammar \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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