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On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 09:15:58PM +0000, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: |
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> summary of questions: |
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> 1. what rss feed reader do you use? |
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Snownews: net-news/snownews [1] |
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> 2. what are your theoretical principles that |
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> guided you to choose the rss feed that you |
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> use. |
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With the recent decision on gentoo-dev to switch the default target to Python |
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3.7, many packages stuck on Python 3.6 support are being masked for removal. |
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Hence, I've been trying to avoid Python packages like the plague when |
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alternatives are available. Snownews is written in C and Perl (quite a few Perl |
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dependencies are required, but they're all tiny) and claims to run any UNIX |
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system (which is likely true). |
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The activity on the GitHub repository has been quiet recently, but in my |
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experience it is remarkably stable and encapsulates everything an R.S.S.\ reader |
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should. |
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It is also a terminal application with customisable keybindings, which is a |
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'must' for me. Unfortunately, it's only available on amd64, x86, and ppc |
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architectures; no A.R.M.\ support in portage. |
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[1] https://github.com/kouya/snownews |
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