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 1EWtms-0000AL-VO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:54:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA1ArY1u009751; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:53:34 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 jA1Aoei9023874 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:50:41 GMT Received: from zh034158.ppp.dion.ne.jp ([222.3.34.158] helo=opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EWtiy-0006rx-KH for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:50:40 +0000 Received: by opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 05778248A63; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:51:51 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (Was: Getting Important Updates To Users) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:51:50 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.92 References: <200511010836.29453.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <20051031234636.GA10657@nightcrawler> In-Reply-To: <20051031234636.GA10657@nightcrawler> 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: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511011951.50770.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: f805cbc9-c83e-4ab3-abc1-6c6e72dbe367 X-Archives-Hash: b43da04842e6d15c73142fea41c53042 On Tuesday 01 November 2005 08:46, Brian Harring wrote: > 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. But before details, what is the reasoning in turning emerge into an offline news reader? So that admins that don't care enough to source news information via other supported means are covered? What's the functional difference between this "emerge --news" and the existing "emerge --changelog"? I'd like bugs to be better described; should a tutorial be added to emerge as well? -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list