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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Bug #565566: Why is it still not fixed?
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On 24/02/16 01:33, Duncan wrote:
> That option is there, and indeed, a patch providing it was specifically 
> added to portage for infra to use, because appending entries to existing 
> files is vastly easier and more performant than trying to prepend entries 
> and having to rewrite the entire file as a result.

This sounds wrong in many different ways. The changelog files are tiny
and makes next to no difference truncate+write or append.

lu