Remove the AlwaysShowNews option from the config file #284
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The AlwaysShowNews was only introduced to keep compatibility with the historic & initial Arch-Update's behavior of always showing news on upgrade (regardless of whether there's a new one since the last run or not). I think it's fair to say that this was a poor design that just created undesired annoyances to people. As such, I'm not sure the AlwaysShowNews option is really desired / used by anyone and therefore could be deprecated & removed altogether. Closes #284 --------- Co-authored-by: Robin Candau <[email protected]>
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This option was introduced to keep compatibility with the historic & initial Arch-Update's behavior of always showing news on upgrade (regardless of whether there's a new one since the last run or not). I think it's fair to say that this was a poor design that just created undesired annoyances to people.
As such, I'm not sure the AlwaysShowNews option is really desired / used by anyone and therefore could be deprecated & removed altogether. The current default behavior of showing news only if a new one has been published since the last run feels like a sane one.
If anything, news can be displayed at any time by running
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