I think Handbook should tell newcomers how to handle news items as it's needed to properly administrate their new Gentoo systems Something like: "Gentoo News Items were created to provide a communication medium to push critical messages to users via the rsync tree. To manage them you will need to use eselect news module. When you get: $(Message portage shows when a new news item is present) (I don't remember the exact message) You can run: # eselect news read To read it. With: # eselect news list You can see all present news items and running: # eselect news purge You can remove them once you are aware of their content. For more information about eselect news usage, consult its man page: # man news.eselect Reproducible: Always
Thanks; I've added in a subsection right after the tree merger (webrsync and optional --sync) as that is the point that the users will first come into contact with the "IMPORTANT: xx news items need reading" message.
