On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 04:52 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:07:37 -0800 Mike Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | What about something like "/etc/portage/news.read", which contains a > > | single news file per line. Perhaps have support for something like > > | "<=2006-01-01" in order to be able to manually mark date ranges as > > | read. > > > > Eh, yet another file. No real need for it really, it just adds > > complexity. > > > > Besides, /etc isn't for program-generated data. > > > > Modify anything within PORTDIR is wrong. > > I'd put a /var/db/news and a /etc/portage/news to handle that. > > Which should be a reasonable timeframe for the news to stay?
Until deleted. > Till the next gentoo release? I'd prefer the news reader have both read and delete options. I also think we would need a searchable archive of all news items. I'd really prefer it was a web page, rather than trying to search a mailing list archive. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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