On 24/02/16 01:33, Duncan wrote: > That option is there, and indeed, a patch providing it was specifically > added to portage for infra to use, because appending entries to existing > files is vastly easier and more performant than trying to prepend entries > and having to rewrite the entire file as a result.
This sounds wrong in many different ways. The changelog files are tiny and makes next to no difference truncate+write or append. lu