Forever. Gentoo releases mean absolutely nothing, they do absolutely nothing.
The news should stay until the upgrade occurs On 11/10/05, Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:07:37 -0800 Mike Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > | What about something like "/etc/portage/news.read", which contains a > > | single news file per line. Perhaps have support for something like > > | "<=2006-01-01" in order to be able to manually mark date ranges as > > | read. > > > > Eh, yet another file. No real need for it really, it just adds > > complexity. > > > > Besides, /etc isn't for program-generated data. > > > > Modify anything within PORTDIR is wrong. > > I'd put a /var/db/news and a /etc/portage/news to handle that. > > Which should be a reasonable timeframe for the news to stay? > > Till the next gentoo release? > > lu > > -- > > Luca Barbato > > Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader > http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
