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On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:34:25 -0500 Alec Warner <warnera6@×××××××.edu> |
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| Personally, I'm for both. E-mailing cron output is a relatively |
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| simple operation. Adding a red flashy deal to emerge saying hey, |
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| package X has an unread news item, also simple as long as the |
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| read/unread format is non-complex. |
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Checking for unread news items is just a case of checking for the |
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existence of files in a particular directory. |
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| If you want to make a seperate program to read the news, go for it. |
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| I don't see why we have to stick silly things in a core utility. |
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| emerge is a package manager, it does not do your laundry too. |
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Well, I see no reason for Portage itself doing anything beyond basic |
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news message filtering and installing and alerting that there are |
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unread news messages. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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