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eselect news — An `eselect` module for reading Gentoo news items. Note: Portage will print a notice when a reposito

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Problem

How to use the eselect news command: An eselect module for reading Gentoo news items. Note: Portage will print a notice when a repository is synchronized and there are unread news items. More information: <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eselect#News>.

Solution

eselect news — An eselect module for reading Gentoo news items. Note: Portage will print a notice when a repository is synchronized and there are unread news items. More information: <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eselect#News>.

List available news items with their numbers (all by default):

eselect news list {{all|new}}

Print the specified news items:

eselect news read {{number1 number2 ...}}

Print all unread news items:

eselect news read

Mark the specified news items as unread:

eselect news unread {{number1 number2 ...}}

Delete all read news items:

eselect news purge

Print the number of available news items (new by default):

eselect news count {{all|new}}

Code Snippets

List available news items with their numbers (all by default)

eselect news list {{all|new}}

Print the specified news items

eselect news read {{number1 number2 ...}}

Print all unread news items

eselect news read

Mark the specified news items as unread

eselect news unread {{number1 number2 ...}}

Delete all read news items

eselect news purge

Context

tldr-pages: linux/eselect news

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