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From: Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two
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Forever.

Gentoo releases mean absolutely nothing, they do absolutely nothing.

The news should stay until the upgrade occurs

On 11/10/05, Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:07:37 -0800 Mike Owen <kyphros@gmail.com> 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
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