From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QG8Fp-0006Rc-Rs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:22:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C37CE1C04C; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:22:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC9A1C012 for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:21:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vereniki.bit-level.net (unknown [83.212.181.146]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pchrist) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6300C1B405A for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:21:45 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:21:37 +0300 From: Panagiotis Christopoulos To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs Message-ID: <20110430112137.GA31709@Vereniki.lan> References: <4DBBCC6D.7080504@gentoo.org> <19899.53594.570603.433881@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <19899.53594.570603.433881@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: cc3a1c0f068312c2037daa395053b8bf --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11:07 Sat 30 Apr , Ulrich Mueller wrote: > ...=20 > I won't clutter ChangeLogs with useless entries for whitespace changes > or spelling fixes in comments, for example. They already account for a > considerable (too large?) percentage of the portage tree [1], and we > shouldn't blow them up further by adding useless information. > ...=20 Taking the latest portage snapshot from a mirror, the sum* of the apparent sizes of all its files (forgetting directories, filesystems. overhead etc.) is ~189Mb. The sum of ChangeLog files is ~66Mb, that is a ~35% fraction. Yes, I know this doesn't say much and I don't know the internals of the rsync protocol (someone can say that communication lines are now better, and cpu processing/disk space costs less than water/oil etc. so what are we talking about?), however it is a fact, if anyone cares. If I find a 1-year old portage snapshot I may calculate better statistics based on fixed number of ChangeLogs that existed then and now to see how they increased over the time. *doing very quick calculations --=20 Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist ) ( Gentoo Lisp Project ) --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk278MEACgkQOsV5uRvANlahNwCfUwO6Ss9Uu3RbipUbDhUChMAL dqsAn01V0SlJAHgGOKxGJxl27kwB466L =MuyR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7--