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From: Grant Goodyear <grant@××××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] changelogs
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 11:36:45
Message-Id: 20011105133627.A2540@g2.ces.clemson.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] changelogs by Jon Nelson
1 > One thing I find I miss in gentoo from other distros is a
2 > changelog
3 > of what is different from ebuild to ebuild. Debian, I think,
4 > has this down pat, although rpm is capable of it as well.
5 >
6 > After (or perhaps as part of) an emerge rsync, I'd like to know
7 > what is new, what has been removed, and the *human reasoning*
8 > behind those decisions.
9 >
10 > IE,
11 >
12 > foo-1.0 removed -- superceced by foo-1.1
13 >
14 > bar-5.3 added -- changes from bar-5.2 include:
15 > "blah blah blah blah,
16 > and blah
17 > and more blah
18 > We tried to fix this bug, and that bug.
19 > Added optional USE support for hammer and nail capability"
20
21 In lieu of anything more formal, there's always cvsweb, which is
22 the method I generally use. Also, it's useful for developers to
23 be subscribed to gentoo-cvs.
24
25 -g2boojum-
26 --
27 ___________________________________________________________________
28 | Grant Goodyear | The Secrets of Physics: |
29 | Dept. of Chemistry - Clemson U |1. Add zero. |
30 | Clemson, SC 29634 |2. Multiply by one. |
31 |-------------------------------------|3. Expand in a Taylor series|
32 |e-mail: goodyea@×××××××.edu |4. Integrate by parts. |
33 |www:bernacchi.chem.uh.edu/~grant |5. Fourier transform. |
34 | |6. Add auxiliary variables |
35 |_____________________________________|____________________________|

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Re: [gentoo-dev] changelogs Jon Nelson <jnelson@×××××××.net>