Re: [gentoo-dev] Why Glep42 news can't be used yet

[Marius Mauch]

On Sun, 6 May 2007 16:44:23 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 6 May 2007 15:40:23 +0200
> Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote:
> > Apparently the `eselect news` module (which is the suggested
> > default news reader) requires paludis to be installed and
> > configured, a quick test resulted in errors when trying with
> > a) paludis not installed
> > b) paludis installed but not configured
>
> Sounds like you forgot USE=portage when installing Paludis. There's an
> at least reasonable chance it can use your Portage configuration if
> you aren't doing anything weird.

Yeah, as I didn't intend to actually use paludis, so that's a rather
special use case that doesn't need further action (only mentioned it
due to the misassumption of news.eselect being part of eselect already)

> > Until that is fixed I'd say that the glep 42 news facilities may not
> > be used in repositories that are primarily used by portage users
> > (and that includes gentoo-x86).
>
> Why make everyone else suffer? It's not like having the news items
> there breaks Portage...

Well, the whole decision process was based on the assumption that
portage (even if it's just trunk) has proper support for glep 42, and
now it turns out that assumption was incorrect. So before we puruse in
using this facility even more we should correct that mistake and have
at least an agreed implementation plan and someone dedicated to do the
relevant work (instead of making more implicit assumptions that
someone will just do it in time eventually).
If all works out well it might even be done in a few hours, so it
wouldn't be a big problem. If it takes more than a few days we know
something went wrong and can do whatever is necessary to correct it.

Marius

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