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On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 04:52 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:07:37 -0800 Mike Owen <kyphros@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > | What about something like "/etc/portage/news.read", which contains a |
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> > | single news file per line. Perhaps have support for something like |
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> > | "<=2006-01-01" in order to be able to manually mark date ranges as |
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> > | read. |
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> > Eh, yet another file. No real need for it really, it just adds |
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> > complexity. |
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> > Besides, /etc isn't for program-generated data. |
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> Modify anything within PORTDIR is wrong. |
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> I'd put a /var/db/news and a /etc/portage/news to handle that. |
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> Which should be a reasonable timeframe for the news to stay? |
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Until deleted. |
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> Till the next gentoo release? |
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I'd prefer the news reader have both read and delete options. I also |
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think we would need a searchable archive of all news items. I'd really |
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prefer it was a web page, rather than trying to search a mailing list |
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archive. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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