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From: Raymond Jennings <shentino@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bug #565566: Why is it still not fixed?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 22:35:52
Message-Id: CAGDaZ_rrNJujs31XRbHF5bV1mxiUs_Z4uUP0Dfk8bUAWhyE7JQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bug #565566: Why is it still not fixed? by Luca Barbato
1 Especially if the changelog files are broken up by year or so.
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3 On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
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5 > On 24/02/16 01:33, Duncan wrote:
6 > > That option is there, and indeed, a patch providing it was specifically
7 > > added to portage for infra to use, because appending entries to existing
8 > > files is vastly easier and more performant than trying to prepend entries
9 > > and having to rewrite the entire file as a result.
10 >
11 > This sounds wrong in many different ways. The changelog files are tiny
12 > and makes next to no difference truncate+write or append.
13 >
14 > lu
15 >
16 >