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Bug 288527 - app-admin/eselect-1.2.3 news reader outputs useless 'No news is good news.'
Summary: app-admin/eselect-1.2.3 news reader outputs useless 'No news is good news.'
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Hosted Projects
Classification: Unclassified
Component: eselect (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo eselect Team
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Keywords: InVCS
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Reported: 2009-10-11 10:03 UTC by Wim van Ravesteijn
Modified: 2009-11-04 22:47 UTC (History)
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Description Wim van Ravesteijn 2009-10-11 10:03:01 UTC 
When executing 'eselect news read new' you always get output, even if there is no news. If there is no news, the program outputs a useless 'No news is good news.'

When running the command daily from cron to get all news mailed to you, this is very annoying, as all servers send you a useless mail every day.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Remove eselect-news and upgrade to app-admin/eselect-1.2.3
2. Execute 'eselect news read new'

Actual Results:  
A message is shown telling: No news is good news.

Expected Results:  
Keep silent and don't report anything in case there is nothing.

Please provide at least an option to keep the program quiet in case there is nothing to say.
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2009-10-11 10:30:16 UTC 
The message is already suppressed with options --raw or --mbox, which are intended for non-interactive usage.

But I've also removed it in brief output mode now ("eselect --brief news read"). In SVN r691, and will be in eselect-1.2.5.
Comment 2 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2009-11-04 22:47:58 UTC 
Fixed in eselect-1.2.5.
Thanks for reporting.