Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

[Brian Harring <ferringb@gentoo.org>]

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Additional issue/question...

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:58:14AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> 6. Portage filters the news item and, if it is relevant, installs it in a
>    special location to be read by a news item reader. Messages are also
>    displayed to inform the user that news is available.
> 7. The news item is handled by the user's choice of news item reader. See `News
>    Item Clients`_.
> 
<snip>
> 
> Client Side
> '''''''''''
> 
> Notification that new relevant news items will be displayed via the
> ``emerge`` tool in a similar way to the existing "configuration files need
> updating" messages:
> 
> ::
> 
>     * Important: 3 config files in /etc need updating.
>     * Type emerge --help config to learn how to update config files.
> 
>     * Important: there are 5 unread news items.
>     * Type emerge --help news to learn how to read news files.
> 
> The unread news message will also be displayed immediately after an
> ``emerge sync``.

Your example readers delete from the news directory, yet I'd expect 
that's not going to be desirable for all setups- nor is leaving the 
news item in the news directory, and having it flagged every sync by 
emerge as unread.

Might want to consider some way to mark an item as read without waxing 
it from the directory, if against it, clarify in the glep why.
~harring

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