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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:34:32
Message-Id: 20051102005211.735e2d7a@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP ??: Critical News Reporting by Brian Harring
1 On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 19:29:59 -0600 Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | Come on now, this is a bit of bullshit.
4 | http://dev.gentoo.org/~ferringb/portage_metadata.py,
5 | 47 lines
6 |
7 | Might be a pain in the ass under the frameworks you deal in, but
8 | something as simple as news items can be done pretty quickly.
9
10 Pfff, now come up with some code that simply emails plain text versions
11 of news items to the root user. It's four lines of bash if you don't
12 bring XML into it.
13
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