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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:56:14
Message-Id: 4374156A.9070906@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:07:37 -0800 Mike Owen <kyphros@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > | What about something like "/etc/portage/news.read", which contains a
4 > | single news file per line. Perhaps have support for something like
5 > | "<=2006-01-01" in order to be able to manually mark date ranges as
6 > | read.
7 >
8 > Eh, yet another file. No real need for it really, it just adds
9 > complexity.
10 >
11 > Besides, /etc isn't for program-generated data.
12 >
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14 Modify anything within PORTDIR is wrong.
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16 I'd put a /var/db/news and a /etc/portage/news to handle that.
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18 Which should be a reasonable timeframe for the news to stay?
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20 Till the next gentoo release?
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22 lu
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26 Luca Barbato
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>