On Sun, 6 May 2007 15:40:23 +0200 Marius Mauch wrote: > 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. Ok, spb just let me know that the eselect new module is shipped as part of paludis, so that dependency is somewhat logical (and the bug therefore being invalid). Still the main problem remains that the suggested default reader is not available for portage users. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.