On Monday 07 November 2005 19:11, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Saturday 05 November 2005 06:34, Alec Warner wrote: > > emerge --changelog has no 'official' format. I believe echangelog > > actually puts the changes in the correct format for emerge -l to read, > > however not everyone uses echangelog. Many developers commit in an > > incompatable syntax causing the parsing to fail. This I believe, is an > > implementation issue. Obviously if someone is trying to get an upgrade > > guide to users they aren't going to commit in an incompatable format. > > I would also like to add that the changelog has too much information to be > usefull as a news source. In all honesty, when I'm emerging a new version > of a package I'm not interested in keyword bumps, small cosmetic changes, > added auxiliary scripts or documentation. These are all documented (and > should be) in the changelog. If I update my system however, I'm mainly > interested in knowing whether something is going to break. News would be > a way to provide this knowledge to a user in an as concise as possible > way.
So what's the point of the ChangeLog again? Move load from the CVS server and onto the rsync servers? (Don't answer that - just beating a dead horse ;) I'm really just against having it in emerge, especially with the current suggestion of portage just doing a little bit of maintenance work for external tools and nothing else. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
