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 1EWll6-0003s1-Ul for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:20:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA12JYkb016362; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:19:34 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA12GtOI017004 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 02:16:56 GMT Received: from cpe-65-26-255-237.wi.res.rr.com ([65.26.255.237] helo=nightcrawler) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EWlhn-00082I-LK for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 02:16:55 +0000 Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:16:30 -0600 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Message-ID: <20051101021630.GD10657@nightcrawler> References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mJm6k4Vb/yFcL9ZU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: d32777ea-d33f-43fe-9b55-99661adb6a12 X-Archives-Hash: d8bf563712a6ca06a15bb12d98256b1e --mJm6k4Vb/yFcL9ZU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:51:25AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > ``Posted:`` > Date of posting, in ``dd-mmm-yyyy`` format (e.g. 14-Aug-2001). > Mandatory. Don't have a good arguement as to why it should be added, but utc=20 time seems like it should be included. > ``Display-If-Installed:`` > A dependency atom or simple package name (for example, > `` package specified installed, the news item should be displayed. You're going to run into issues with slotmoves for longterm... I'd personally rather the translation/updating of the atoms specified=20 for this field does *not* occur in portage clientside, iow it's=20 handled server side. > ``Display-If-Keyword:`` > A keyword [#glep-22]_ name, for example ``mips``. If the user is on > the arch in question, the news item should be displayed. >=20 > TODO: Display-If-USE for USE flag renames? >=20 > TODO: Display-If-Mode: ``any`` or ``all`` or ``none`` with ``any`` being > the default? TODO: Display-If-Profile: ? I'd like to kill off the deprecated profile file someday... > News Item Display > ----------------- >=20 > Whenever relevant unread news items are found, ``emerge`` will copy the > news file into ``/var/lib/gentoo/news/``. Expand this to address N repo's all delivering their own news=20 please... Any reason this must be moved locally? Why not just track some id=20 =66rom the news article locally, instead of copying it? Yes this makes things a bit more funky for reading tools... but imo,=20 the duplication is a bit wasteful. Not a huge issue, but worth=20 considering imo. ~harring --mJm6k4Vb/yFcL9ZU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDZs/+vdBxRoA3VU0RAikuAKCxhNt2ERyGoKMe4FtZCGJWBUk2/gCgxn+F 87BI14Vqfp44HZ41YudnU7k= =n/kh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mJm6k4Vb/yFcL9ZU-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list