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news.eselect

Section: eselect (5)
Updated: March 2010
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NAME

news.eselect - The GLEP 42 newsreader module for Gentoo's eselect

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

eselect is Gentoo's configuration and management tool. It features modules that care for the individual administrative tasks.

ACTION: LIST

eselect news list
List all Gentoo news items.

# eselect news list
News items:

  [1]   unread  2009-04-18  Generation 1 Java Setup Deprecated
  [2]   read    2009-04-06  Migration from teTeX to TeXLive
  [3]   read    2009-04-06  Migration to X.org Server 1.5

ACTION: READ

eselect news read [--mbox|--quiet|--raw] [item...]
Read news item(s), selected by their item number(s) from the list action. Special items new and all select all unread items or all items, respectively. Default is to read all unread news, if no item is specified. With options --mbox or --raw, output the item(s) in mbox format or in raw format, respectively. Option --quiet or --silent suppresses output, but items are still marked as read.

ACTION: UNREAD

eselect news unread [item...]
Mark news item(s) as unread again. Items are selected by their item number(s) from the list action. Special item all selects all items.