Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

2018-01-07 Thread Denis Lisov
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 1:05 PM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > Filtering in eselect news would be problematic: Obtaining the list > of items with "eselect news list" and e.g. reading them with "eselect > news read" are issued as separate commands, which requires that the > list of valid items does not ch

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

2018-01-06 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 01/06/2018 11:11 PM, Anders Thomson wrote: > Thanks. Which of the requirements requires transport to be in a > particular manner? I see implications on pm, but nothing on > transport. tl;dr; the PM knows which packages are installed on the specific system, a specific feed does not (although tha

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

2018-01-06 Thread Anders Thomson
On January 6, 2018 9:30:51 PM GMT+01:00, Alec Warner wrote: >On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 2:51 PM, Anders Thomson > >wrote: > >> >> >> As a non-dev... >> > >> >In fact, it is the PM that would do the filtering, before filling >the >> >list of unread news items in... >> >> How come news' transport is t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

2018-01-06 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 2:51 PM, Anders Thomson wrote: > > > As a non-dev... > > > >In fact, it is the PM that would do the filtering, before filling the > >list of unread news items in... > > How come news' transport is tied to the pm / package tree at all? It would > seem more natural to fetch n

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

2018-01-06 Thread Anders Thomson
As a non-dev... > >In fact, it is the PM that would do the filtering, before filling the >list of unread news items in... How come news' transport is tied to the pm / package tree at all? It would seem more natural to fetch news using e.g. rss and have a reader (which i can configure) sort out

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

2018-01-06 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 11:25 AM, Ciaran McCreesh < ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 08:18:19 -0500 > kuzetsa wrote: > > On 01/06/2018 05:05 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > >> On Sat, 6 Jan 2018, Duncan wrote: > > >> $ equery b news.eselect > > >> app-admin/eselect-1.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

2018-01-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 08:18:19 -0500 kuzetsa wrote: > On 01/06/2018 05:05 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >> On Sat, 6 Jan 2018, Duncan wrote: > >> $ equery b news.eselect > >> app-admin/eselect-1.4.10 (/usr/share/eselect/modules/news.eselect) > >> So in that case it's not the PM, but eselect. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

2018-01-06 Thread kuzetsa
On 01/06/2018 05:05 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> On Sat, 6 Jan 2018, Duncan wrote: >> $ equery b news.eselect >> app-admin/eselect-1.4.10 (/usr/share/eselect/modules/news.eselect) >> So in that case it's not the PM, but eselect. > In fact, it is the PM that would do the filtering, before fil

[gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

2018-01-06 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2018, Duncan wrote: > $ equery b news.eselect > app-admin/eselect-1.4.10 (/usr/share/eselect/modules/news.eselect) > So in that case it's not the PM, but eselect. In fact, it is the PM that would do the filtering, before filling the list of unread news items in /var/lib/gent

[gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

2018-01-06 Thread Duncan
Michał Górny posted on Sat, 06 Jan 2018 00:55:58 +0100 as excerpted: > W dniu pią, 05.01.2018 o godzinie 23∶09 +0100, użytkownik Kristian > Fiskerstrand napisał: >> On 01/05/2018 10:28 PM, Aaron W. Swenson wrote: >>> On 2018-01-05 15:16, William Hubbs wrote: If we have a default expiration,

[gentoo-dev] Re: Deleting old news items

2018-01-03 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 01/03/2018 11:13 AM, Alec Warner wrote: > Problem: > > New stages have numerous news items listed that are likely not relevant, > but are shown due to limitations in the filtering in NEWS items. E.g. on > a recent stage3: > > nspawntest / # eselect news list > News items: >   [1]   N  2013-09-