On Monday 12 December 2005 02:43, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:32:05 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > | Repositories will definitely have a unique identifier. Perhaps it > | would be better to use the repository-identifing format from the > | beginning so that readers are forced to be forwards-compatible? > | Assuming the readers would then output the repository name, labeling > | it "gentoo" should work well... > > *shrug* If someone creates metadata/repository_id (or whatever), I'll > go with that. Otherwise, I'm not in favour of attempting to guess how > the thing will be implemented.
Repositories will be user-labelled. However, all that readers need be concerned with is how to extract the repository name from the news.unread file and how to then resolve that to a directory name, regardless of how repositories are implemented. Even before multiple respositories are properly supported, I guarantee bugs about support for this in portage overlays. With the above, we would be able to add that support. Without it, all we can do is put a big CANTFIX. > | > When a news item is read, its name should be removed from the > | > ``news.unread`` file. News clients may add the name to a > | > ``news.read`` file in the same directory with the same file format. > | > | news.read should either be mandatory or not created at all. Should a > | user change from a reader that creates and uses the file to one that > | doesn't and then change back again the results will be unexpected. > > I'm not sure that that's the case. With a news to email forwarder, for > example, it wouldn't make sense to keep track of news.read. In that case, the data should probably not be in /var/lib/portage and definitely not specified in the GLEP. It has nothing to do with portage (the app) and isn't a requirement on readers. What if a reader wants to keep track of what date an item was read on? Or any other metadata? A new file would need to be created anyway due to format constrainst placed on news.read... -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
