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

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

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

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 >

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

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 > > >>

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

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