Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 16:34:31
Message-Id: f3b66834-6dc0-0d75-b2f9-89e9dce28de2@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 08/06/16 08:30 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Just a thought here. Is there a way to do a news announcement for
5 >> people that have a package installed from the overlay? If that
6 >> could be done, then users who don't use it won't be bothered by it
7 >> but users who do will get the news announcement about its future.
8 >
9 > There can be news items not only for the gentoo tree, but for any
10 > overlay. Simply place them into metadata/news/ of that repository.
11 >
12 > Conditional display on any "package installed from the overlay" won't
13 > be possible, though.
14
15 A package.mask in the overlay sort of does that...

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature