On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:34:25 -0500 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Personally, I'm for both. E-mailing cron output is a relatively | simple operation. Adding a red flashy deal to emerge saying hey, | package X has an unread news item, also simple as long as the | read/unread format is non-complex.
Checking for unread news items is just a case of checking for the existence of files in a particular directory. | If you want to make a seperate program to read the news, go for it. | I don't see why we have to stick silly things in a core utility. | emerge is a package manager, it does not do your laundry too. Well, I see no reason for Portage itself doing anything beyond basic news message filtering and installing and alerting that there are unread news messages. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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