From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EaxUZ-0001Uz-7F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:40:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jACFdnIN027604; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:39:49 GMT Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org (66-191-187-123.dhcp.gnvl.sc.charter.com [66.191.187.123]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jACFc459026004 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:38:05 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA2124801F for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:28:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.twi-31o2.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gravity.twi-31o2.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09065-12 for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:28:33 -0500 (EST) Received: from vertigo.twi-31o2.org (vertigo.twi-31o2.org [192.168.0.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.twi-31o2.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F29124801E for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:28:33 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200511121339.05413.jstubbs@gentoo.org> References: <436CAC58.4090809@gentoo.org> <20051111090339.GB7217@gentoo.org> <1131747595.8508.71.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <200511121339.05413.jstubbs@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-M+RM1tnXHdCYrE4/D7nf" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:34:31 -0500 Message-Id: <1131809671.8774.19.camel@vertigo.twi-31o2.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at twi-31o2.org X-Archives-Salt: 5a482009-01e0-4240-8e91-ec017dafe822 X-Archives-Hash: de68fb71ce207161a167a0cb81c4f9c1 --=-M+RM1tnXHdCYrE4/D7nf Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 13:39 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Saturday 12 November 2005 07:19, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > When we have emerge --news done, >=20 > I keep seeing references to "emerge --news" but at the same time am seein= g=20 > that news readers are external. What exactly is `emerge --news` meant to = do?=20 > Print out "You've got news!"? Manage some external database? It is my opinion that the news reading application need not be integrated into portage. As far as I have understood it, the only real thing that anyone has required portage itself to do is to *automatically* spit out "You have $n unread news messages. Please use $bleh to read them" at certain times (after sync, after --pretend, before/after a merge). I don't see this as being something very complex. I would assume that some extra code would need to be written into the sync code somewhere to sort the messages. I wouldn't mind seeing something along the lines of /var/db/news directory (or something repo specific, whatever) that has a pretty simple format... yyyy-mm-dd-$blah-$lang.txt.unread yyyy-mm-dd-$blah-$lang.txt.read When you delete a message, it is gone. This means an external news reader (enews anyone?) that basically has the capability to read, skip, or delete these news items. I think this would be pretty simple to get done and covers the problem of messages being read or unread. Of course, this is all just an idea, so feel free to blow holes all in it. ;] --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-M+RM1tnXHdCYrE4/D7nf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDdguHkT4lNIS36YERAphSAJ49pEl6wf0m3bZ8x3CNEZft7R9THgCfROcq nd8MeejHtOueZaiL7elftSQ= =esDB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-M+RM1tnXHdCYrE4/D7nf-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list