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On Friday 11 November 2005 00:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 23:12:28 +0000 Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | Should the GLEP explain how Portage will know how many unread news |
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> | items there are in /var/lib/gentoo/news? I couldn't spot where this |
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> | is covered in the text, or in the example code. |
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> Well, I was going to go with the plain but simple "once you've read it, |
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> delete it" approach, but some people didn't like that. Next draft will |
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> propose being able to append .read to a filename to mark it read |
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> without deleting it. Either way, it's just a case of looking |
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> for ????-??-??-*.??.txt, chopping off the .??.txt, removing duplicates |
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> and counting. |
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If you don't delete it, we might still have a supersedes header that |
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indicates that one news item overrides another one. This would also be |
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useful for a web version that contains a full archive of all news items. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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