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On Thursday 20 June 2002 06:46 am, Wout Mertens wrote: |
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> But that is exactly what Changelog is for, notifying the user about what |
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> changed. Although I admit it doesn't have a lot of visibility, we might |
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> want to do something about that, like an option on emerge that shows the |
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> changelogs since your version... |
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that is a great idea! i would only add that some indication of severity (with |
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appropriate colorized output perhaps?) would be nice, so that mundane changes |
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(new incremental version update, no big changes) would be in white, while |
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more significant changes that might require configuration changes and/or |
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break a current running setup (like apache) would be in yellow, while |
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signficant changes (like major version update or very incompatible changes, a |
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la db3 -> db4 or the recent libpng update) would have a higher severity that |
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would print out in bright red! :-) |
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Then one could to an 'emerge -u -p world --show-changelog' (or whatever the |
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switch ends up being) and see right away, with a casual glance, which changes |
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are likely to be the most worrisome. |
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Jean. |