Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tuesday 27 Dec 2016 08:21:53 lee wrote: >> Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> writes: >> > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 5:47 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: >> >> Yes, and that doesn't show me news before I sync, or does it? >> > >> > Correct. >> > >> > The order to do this in is: >> > >> > Sync >> > Read news. >> > Apply updates. >> >> sounds reasonable > > Even more reasonable: > > eselect news read new > > will only come up with the latest as yet unread news, rather than a long list > which could have accumulated over the years.
It seems to be clearing out the list automatically. [1] says the mailer module of eselect was removed. Is there a better way to read them than with eselect? [1]: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/eselect.git/plain/NEWS