[gentoo-dev] Why Glep42 news can't be used yet

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

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Disclaimer: This has nothing to do with the recent disussion about he
paludis news item except that it was used as testcase.

Apparently the `eselect news` module (which is the suggested
default news reader) requires paludis to be installed and configured, a
quick test resulted in errors when trying with
a) paludis not installed
b) paludis installed but not configured
and the code doesn't seem to have any support for portage at this time
(checked version was eselect-1.0.9).

This is reported as bug 177325.
Until that is fixed I'd say that the glep 42 news facilities may not
be used in repositories that are primarily used by portage users (and
that includes gentoo-x86). Don't know if the existing item should be
allowed as an exception due to the intended audience or not.

Marius

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