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 1EaQGL-0002qu-OO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:11:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAB4AxOL030944; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:10:59 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.194]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAB49CRY006142 for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:09:12 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so509738wri for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:09:11 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IOTODi08KP5CcfTPmumMEuUPUjI+UJrfMXSWb/3E7lawKdg1sBNMbK+THHAYm4vVpXjgG2O6kkMGMV3WFfjrQXg/GCSqRzxsz23IKbP5wl0y2YF4/cAgTZ9+BkdO/ot8tK/ddh29nVNX2oF+QO3TYJPzgMTo4TUQ4AKaqEJVXfI= Received: by 10.54.100.2 with SMTP id x2mr769980wrb; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:09:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.110.15 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:09:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <46059ce10511102009u2631ef63wa4f26103a8875c84@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:09:11 -0500 From: Dan Meltzer To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two In-Reply-To: <4374156A.9070906@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051105005814.0de0d8ff@snowdrop.home> <1131664348.8511.95.camel@mogheiden.gnqs.org> <20051110233506.5d9b98e0@snowdrop.home> <8f5ca2210511101607u54e15001sd280a798e748c787@mail.gmail.com> <20051111001126.2772557b@snowdrop.home> <4374156A.9070906@gentoo.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jAB49CRY006142 X-Archives-Salt: 70de5e4f-1926-431f-a566-7a94ce88bfa8 X-Archives-Hash: 344d410a707a6bdf19a58ffc9288cbf5 Forever. Gentoo releases mean absolutely nothing, they do absolutely nothing. The news should stay until the upgrade occurs On 11/10/05, Luca Barbato wrote: > 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 > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list