GLEP 42 has: News Item Removal News items can be removed (by removing the news file from the main tree) when they are no longer relevant, if they are made obsolete by a future news item or after a long period of time. This is the same as the method used for updates entries. Reproducible: Always
I think the most recent discussion centered around not removing news items (which are rarely updated and take up trivial space) and instead are going to modify the GLEP to make obsolete news items not display'd. Does that meet your needs? We can modify eselect news to show "hidden / expired" news items if we want. -A
(In reply to Alec Warner from comment #1) > I think the most recent discussion centered around not removing news items > (which are rarely updated and take up trivial space) and instead are going > to modify the GLEP to make obsolete news items not display'd. Does that meet > your needs? > > We can modify eselect news to show "hidden / expired" news items if we want. I think that any filtering should be done by the package manager, as it is currently done for the Display-If-* headers. So the list of unread news items (/var/lib/gentoo/news/news-gentoo.unread) would be updated when syncing, and any expired items would be removed from it. In eselect news, filtering could cause problems, e.g. if an item expires between doing "eselect news list" and "eselect news read <item>".
