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 4.54) id 1ElVJz-00047w-8O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:49:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBBHlFFd022588; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:47:15 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 jBBHhepn015554 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:43:40 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 4.54) id 1ElVEa-0003nv-0S for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:43:40 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1ElVEU-0000Xl-2c for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:43:34 +0000 Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:43:31 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 (Critical news reporting) updates Message-ID: <20051211174331.03bb6f62@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200512111332.05202.jstubbs@gentoo.org> References: <20051211013550.66bfd7d2@snowdrop.home> <200512111332.05202.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_o39cbeo9mbQxLH1EHAO7r94; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: da401891-bd59-4d9d-9c70-b2cffe8f8dbd X-Archives-Hash: 255a110668ee896d0cc8f3f89c0c24a6 --Sig_o39cbeo9mbQxLH1EHAO7r94 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:32:05 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org> wrote: | Repositories will definitely have a unique identifier. Perhaps it | would be better to use the repository-identifing format from the | beginning so that readers are forced to be forwards-compatible? | Assuming the readers would then output the repository name, labeling | it "gentoo" should work well... *shrug* If someone creates metadata/repository_id (or whatever), I'll go with that. Otherwise, I'm not in favour of attempting to guess how the thing will be implemented. | > When a news item is read, its name should be removed from the | > ``news.unread`` file. News clients may add the name to a | > ``news.read`` file in the same directory with the same file format. |=20 | news.read should either be mandatory or not created at all. Should a | user change from a reader that creates and uses the file to one that | doesn't and then change back again the results will be unexpected. I'm not sure that that's the case. With a news to email forwarder, for example, it wouldn't make sense to keep track of news.read. | > * Important: there are 5 unread news items. | > * Type emerge --help news to learn how to read news files. | [...] | > An ``eselect`` [#eselect]_ module shall be created as the | > 'suggested' display tool; other display tools (for example, a news | > to email forwarder, which would be ideal for users who sync on a | > ``cron``) are left as options for those who desire them. |=20 | By "suggested" you mean that it should be referenced in the news help? News help, handbook etc, yes. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_o39cbeo9mbQxLH1EHAO7r94 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDnGVF96zL6DUtXhERAvn0AJ4if+dkbbzUw5x701GWrQJnhuINRwCdG2xR BrQ7j3CSRVgjv4O3JuLp99E= =1aDL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_o39cbeo9mbQxLH1EHAO7r94-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list