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On 08/06/16 08:30 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Dale wrote: |
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>> Just a thought here. Is there a way to do a news announcement for |
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>> people that have a package installed from the overlay? If that |
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>> could be done, then users who don't use it won't be bothered by it |
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>> but users who do will get the news announcement about its future. |
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> There can be news items not only for the gentoo tree, but for any |
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> overlay. Simply place them into metadata/news/ of that repository. |
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> Conditional display on any "package installed from the overlay" won't |
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> be possible, though. |
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A package.mask in the overlay sort of does that... |