On Sun, 6 May 2007 15:40:23 +0200
Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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

Sounds like you forgot USE=portage when installing Paludis. There's an
at least reasonable chance it can use your Portage configuration if you
aren't doing anything weird.

> 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).

Why make everyone else suffer? It's not like having the news items
there breaks Portage...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh