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