Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:17:13 -0800 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > What the heck is this 'gentoo' thing, and how does it help? Shoving
| > newsdir into portageq doesn't help *at all* with multiple repository
| > support.
|
| Like I said in a previous email, 'gentoo' corresponds to
| 'magic-chicken' in your news-magic-chicken.unread files. The news
| reader app gets the repo identifier from the news-*.unread files and
| plugs that into portageq to get the directory where the corresponding
| new items can be found.
This still leaves us with the "what are the identifiers and how do we use
them?" problem,
For the time being, the type of functionality provided by gensync could be
added to portage. The portage news add-on would need a way to retrieve an
enumeration of repo identifiers (another portageq query) for use when updating
the news-*.unread files.
except that it moves it deeper down into the "how
do I determine whether this news item is relevant?" area. And the only
way to get around that would be to move even more code into Portage
than you're already proposing.
Are the currently specified Display-If-* headers insufficient for some reason?
Zac
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