Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLogs and rsync time

[Matti Bickel <kabel@cat0.de>]

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Francesco Riosa <vivo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Matti Bickel wrote:
> > Pawe?? Madej <linux@quanteam.info> wrote:
> >> As a common user with ADSL 256kbps all additional data downloaded via
> >> rsync causes longer wait for syncing. If I want to see a changelog i
> >> go to packages.gentoo.org and read it. As i got Gentoo for about 10
> >> months I don't remember if I read Changelog via bash.
> > 
> > I strongly disagree. Reading changelogs on the web means browsing for
> > them. This is much slower for me than a 'less
> > /usr/portage/foo/bar/Changelog'.
> > 
> > I rather go with ciaranm and tell users to use rsync_exclude if they
> > don't want changelogs. Taking away choice without an option is a bad
> > thing (tm).
> 
> A (rethoric) question:
> Do you read every time the whole ChangeLog ?
> If not, generally, how much of it ?

About 20%. I don't care about changelogs most of the time because
diffing the ebuilds is easier and you get more info.
However if there's a bug or some major upgrade, i tend to kind of read
the thing. For bug# and stuff.

Personally it's also interesting who commited a fix.

Regards,
Matti
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