Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:53:22
Message-Id: 20160608155304.0d79fe6a.mgorny@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of the Sunrise project by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 14:30:51 +0200
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > >>>>> On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Dale wrote:
5 >
6 > > Just a thought here. Is there a way to do a news announcement for
7 > > people that have a package installed from the overlay? If that
8 > > could be done, then users who don't use it won't be bothered by it
9 > > but users who do will get the news announcement about its future.
10 >
11 > There can be news items not only for the gentoo tree, but for any
12 > overlay. Simply place them into metadata/news/ of that repository.
13 >
14 > Conditional display on any "package installed from the overlay" won't
15 > be possible, though.
16
17 But the news item would have to be placed in the unreviewed repository,
18 and pass a review from Sunrise team :-P.
19
20 --
21 Best regards,
22 Michał Górny
23 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>