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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman adding "Package-Manager: portage-2.2.20.1" to every single commit
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 17:50:07
Message-Id: 55D4C1AC.1010209@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman adding "Package-Manager: portage-2.2.20.1" to every single commit by Zac Medico
1 On 08/19/2015 07:37 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
2 > On 08/19/2015 09:33 AM, hasufell wrote:
3 >> I don't want to start a lot of bikeshed, but I think this information is
4 >> practically useless.
5 >>
6 >> If there has been a problem with a commit, ask the developer about his
7 >> repoman version (which I believe was the reason for this, unless you
8 >> want me to add "Package-Manager: paludis-2.4.0" to every commit ;).
9 >>
10 >> Let's just remove it.
11 >>
12 >
13 > The intent is to leave a record of the version of repoman used, which
14 > leaves an audit trail in case there's a bug in some some version (or to
15 > detect if someone is using an ancient version). It can especially be
16 > useful when new repoman checks need to be added for new EAPI features.
17 >
18
19 Why is it called "Package-Manager:" then?
20
21 And how often was that useful in practice?

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