On 11/26/2011 11:25 PM, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Zac Medico <[email protected]> wrote:
>> GLEP 42 refers to GLEP 22, which says nothing of ~arch specifiers. The
>> current portage code literally compares the news item's keyword to the
>> current profile's ARCH variable, so ~arch specifiers will not match. The
>> code is in the DisplayKeywordRestriction class:
>>
>>  
>> http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=blob;f=pym/portage/news.py#l326
>>
> 
> Thanks for the information, I've committed the newsfile as is:
> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-news/2011/2011-11-27-gnome3-unmask/
> 
> PS: what do we have to do to get Display-If-Visible implemented? I
> volunteer to do whatever I can. :)

We can bump the version of the News-Item-Format and add any new features
that we want. People have requested support for USE dependencies in the
past, so we may want to add that at the same time.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac

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