Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (Was: Getting Important Updates To Users)

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 08:36:23AM +0900, Chris White wrote:
> Attached in plain text form is glep 42 for the discussed thread.
> emerge --news support
> ---------------------
> 
> As already mentioned by Stuart, in this way users are bound to the one thing
> guaranteed on their system: Portage.  Through portage, the same location where
> etc-update notifications are displayed (after emerge --sync and at the finish of
> an emerge), will contain a notice about news updates.  These news updates should
> come in the form of a file contained within the portage tree for users that want
> news updates on a networkless system. Should the user run these items in the
> background or send the output to /dev/null for any reason, a --news option
> should also be avaliable in emerge for them to review the news at a convient
> time.

And this file is what format?  How is the format going to be 
structured so that emerge can know what entries to ignore?  How is 
emerge going to pull those entries again?

What restrictions are there for what goes into this file, to keep the 
signal to noise ratio sane?
Etc.

Details man, details.
~harring

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