On Sunday 13 November 2005 00:34, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 13:39 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > On Saturday 12 November 2005 07:19, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > > When we have emerge --news done, > > > > I keep seeing references to "emerge --news" but at the same time am > > seeing that news readers are external. What exactly is `emerge --news` > > meant to do? Print out "You've got news!"? Manage some external database? > > It is my opinion that the news reading application need not be > integrated into portage. As far as I have understood it, the only real > thing that anyone has required portage itself to do is to > *automatically* spit out "You have $n unread news messages. Please use > $bleh to read them" at certain times (after sync, after --pretend, > before/after a merge). I don't see this as being something very > complex. I would assume that some extra code would need to be written > into the sync code somewhere to sort the messages.
This, I get. What I'm wondering about is the `emerge --news` that is referred to every so often. > I wouldn't mind seeing something along the lines of /var/db/news > directory (or something repo specific, whatever) that has a pretty > simple format... > > yyyy-mm-dd-$blah-$lang.txt.unread > yyyy-mm-dd-$blah-$lang.txt.read > > When you delete a message, it is gone. This means an external news > reader (enews anyone?) that basically has the capability to read, skip, > or delete these news items. > > I think this would be pretty simple to get done and covers the problem > of messages being read or unread. Of course, this is all just an idea, > so feel free to blow holes all in it. ;] To be honest, this is the part that I don't like the most. Integrating code into portage to copy files here and there based on some predefined rules and news readers reading and renaming files based on some predefined rules... A filesystem based API just doesn't seem very robust to change. I'd prefer that either the post-sync handling code is not integrated into portage and portage just triggers some external script - or - portage exposes an API (via python and bash) for accessing and updating news items. I'd prefer the latter but I get the impression that most prefer the former. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
