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 1EWwWL-0000kj-PC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:49:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA1DmNIN028974; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:48:23 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 jA1Di163002322 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:44:01 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EWwQj-0004uo-0W for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:44:01 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EWwQh-00070x-Am for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:43:59 +0000 Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 13:43:56 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting Message-ID: <20051101134356.4b2e137b@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <43676EE1.2080307@egr.msu.edu> References: <20051101015125.1cc45eb4@snowdrop.home> <43673CB6.1010907@gentoo.org> <20051101115843.7b2dfeeb@snowdrop.home> <43675C83.4010005@gentoo.org> <20051101122657.2d06d9e5@snowdrop.home> <11710324670.20051101133924@gentoo.org> <20051101124806.422976f6@snowdrop.home> <43676EE1.2080307@egr.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.99-rc2 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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; boundary=Signature_Tue__1_Nov_2005_13_43_56_+0000_qHsg2WTOYfO74aX.; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: d0507d8d-f524-4c7f-9105-4679b8418fdb X-Archives-Hash: 70a4b7d166f0bb0ec6663138d7fcb1b8 --Signature_Tue__1_Nov_2005_13_43_56_+0000_qHsg2WTOYfO74aX. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:34:25 -0500 Alec Warner wrote: | Personally, I'm for both. E-mailing cron output is a relatively | simple operation. Adding a red flashy deal to emerge saying hey, | package X has an unread news item, also simple as long as the | read/unread format is non-complex. Checking for unread news items is just a case of checking for the existence of files in a particular directory. | If you want to make a seperate program to read the news, go for it. | I don't see why we have to stick silly things in a core utility. | emerge is a package manager, it does not do your laundry too. Well, I see no reason for Portage itself doing anything beyond basic news message filtering and installing and alerting that there are unread news messages. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Tue__1_Nov_2005_13_43_56_+0000_qHsg2WTOYfO74aX. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDZ3Ee96zL6DUtXhERAlwNAJ4/1arJwtEe2C9QLX9viC2zBCh0IwCdGcw2 szZ+83QYfG26+FYgRhWS4Cc= =GoZj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Tue__1_Nov_2005_13_43_56_+0000_qHsg2WTOYfO74aX.-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list