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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:17:13 -0800 Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> | > What the heck is this 'gentoo' thing, and how does it help? Shoving |
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> | > newsdir into portageq doesn't help *at all* with multiple repository |
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> | > support. |
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> | Like I said in a previous email, 'gentoo' corresponds to |
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> | 'magic-chicken' in your news-magic-chicken.unread files. The news |
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> | reader app gets the repo identifier from the news-*.unread files and |
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> | plugs that into portageq to get the directory where the corresponding |
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> | new items can be found. |
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> This still leaves us with the "what are the identifiers and how do we use them?" problem, |
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For the time being, the type of functionality provided by gensync could be added to portage. The portage news add-on would need a way to retrieve an enumeration of repo identifiers (another portageq query) for use when updating the news-*.unread files. |
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> except that it moves it deeper down into the "how |
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> do I determine whether this news item is relevant?" area. And the only |
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> way to get around that would be to move even more code into Portage |
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> than you're already proposing. |
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Are the currently specified Display-If-* headers insufficient for some reason? |
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Zac |
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