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 4.50) id 1EaQ1N-00047g-KS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:56:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAB3tVEk008713; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:55:31 GMT Received: from smtp20.libero.it (smtp20.libero.it [193.70.192.147]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAB3rik3019113 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:53:44 GMT Received: from localhost (172.16.1.15) by smtp20.libero.it (7.0.027-DD01) id 4369E3B300A87D01 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:53:44 +0100 Received: from smtp1.libero.it ([172.16.1.96]) by localhost (asav11.libero.it [193.70.192.93]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09719-03 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:53:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (adsl-ull-27-171.44-151.net24.it [151.44.171.27]) by smtp1.libero.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id A82BFA8C0C for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:53:43 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <4374156A.9070906@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:52:10 +0100 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051004) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two References: <20051105005814.0de0d8ff@snowdrop.home> <1131664348.8511.95.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <20051110233506.5d9b98e0@snowdrop.home> <8f5ca2210511101607u54e15001sd280a798e748c787@mail.gmail.com> <20051111001126.2772557b@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051111001126.2772557b@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned: with antispam and antivirus automated system at libero.it X-Archives-Salt: ff3955dd-402f-4b9c-827a-424f69592232 X-Archives-Hash: 5c996ffad523e59453241916fcf458d6 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:07:37 -0800 Mike Owen wrote: > | What about something like "/etc/portage/news.read", which contains a > | single news file per line. Perhaps have support for something like > | "<=2006-01-01" in order to be able to manually mark date ranges as > | read. > > Eh, yet another file. No real need for it really, it just adds > complexity. > > Besides, /etc isn't for program-generated data. > Modify anything within PORTDIR is wrong. I'd put a /var/db/news and a /etc/portage/news to handle that. Which should be a reasonable timeframe for the news to stay? Till the next gentoo release? lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list