On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 13:39 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Saturday 12 November 2005 07:19, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > When we have emerge --news done, > > I keep seeing references to "emerge --news" but at the same time am seeing > that news readers are external. What exactly is `emerge --news` meant to do? > Print out "You've got news!"? Manage some external database?
It is my opinion that the news reading application need not be integrated into portage. As far as I have understood it, the only real thing that anyone has required portage itself to do is to *automatically* spit out "You have $n unread news messages. Please use $bleh to read them" at certain times (after sync, after --pretend, before/after a merge). I don't see this as being something very complex. I would assume that some extra code would need to be written into the sync code somewhere to sort the messages. I wouldn't mind seeing something along the lines of /var/db/news directory (or something repo specific, whatever) that has a pretty simple format... yyyy-mm-dd-$blah-$lang.txt.unread yyyy-mm-dd-$blah-$lang.txt.read When you delete a message, it is gone. This means an external news reader (enews anyone?) that basically has the capability to read, skip, or delete these news items. I think this would be pretty simple to get done and covers the problem of messages being read or unread. Of course, this is all just an idea, so feel free to blow holes all in it. ;] -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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