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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:07:37 -0800
From: Mike Owen <kyphros@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two
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On 11/10/05, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:12:28 +0000 Stuart Herbert <stuart@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> | Should the GLEP explain how Portage will know how many unread news
> | items there are in /var/lib/gentoo/news? I couldn't spot where this
> | is covered in the text, or in the example code.
>
> Well, I was going to go with the plain but simple "once you've read it,
> delete it" approach, but some people didn't like that. Next draft will
> propose being able to append .read to a filename to mark it read
> without deleting it. Either way, it's just a case of looking
> for ????-??-??-*.??.txt, chopping off the .??.txt, removing duplicates
> and counting.
>
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.
HTH,
Mike
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