eselect-news

Gentoo news item reader and manager

TLDR

List news items

$ eselect news list

List only new items

$ eselect news list new

Read all unread news

$ eselect news read

Read specific news items

$ eselect news read 1 2 3

Mark items as unread

$ eselect news unread 1 2

Delete read news items

$ eselect news purge

Count news items

$ eselect news count new

SYNOPSIS

eselect news action [arguments]

DESCRIPTION

eselect news is an eselect module for reading Gentoo news items. Portage prints a notice when news is available after repository synchronization.

PARAMETERS

list [all|new]

List available news items (all by default)

read [NUMBERS...]

Read specified news items or all unread if none specified

unread NUMBERS...

Mark specified news items as unread

purge

Delete all read news items

count [all|new]

Show the number of news items (new by default)

CAVEATS

News items are repository-specific announcements from Gentoo developers about important changes. Reading news items marks them as read and they won't be announced again.

HISTORY

eselect news is part of the eselect framework on Gentoo Linux, providing a modular system for configuration management.