On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 05:57:55PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:44:08PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > see apt-listchanges, which is a great tool for looking at changelogs > > > before you install packages. > > > > Hardly everybody has got a full Debian mirror in the same rack. ;-) > > If there were a reliable and complete source of changelog data > programmatically available over the network, and a means by which > apt-listchanges could be launched by apt before any packages are downloaded, > it would be easy to modify apt-listchanges to use this data.
Or anything else, although apt-listchanges might be nicer. aptitude used to do this (slightly hackily), before the Web-available changelogs vanished. Daniel -- /-------------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------\ | "Systems in which an event can happen before itself do | | not seem to be physically meaningful." -- Leslie Lamport | \-Evil Overlord, Inc: planning your future today. http://www.eviloverlord.com-/
