On 02-05-2011 02:04:57 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > Having the servers do that, will also allow us to provide cut down > > Changelogs ( lets say keep that last 10 entries ) so we can provide > > a more minimal portage tree, size wise. > > Ten is way too small. Chances are that after one round of > stabilisations the ChangeLog entry for the last real change to the > package will be gone. We should keep at least one year (better two) > of history, because our aim is that users' systems should still be > upgradeable after this time. And IMHO emerge -l should give the user > the full list of changes since his last update.
How about forgetting the time constraint, but just keeping all changelog entries for all ebuilds that are in the tree? -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
