* Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs
@ 2011-04-30 14:24 99% ` Brian Harring
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From: Brian Harring @ 2011-04-30 14:24 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 02:42:08PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:
> I am actually with Samuli on this. Unless there is a particular reason
> for removing a package, I don't see any point of documenting this change anywhere.
> What difference would it make to you if you see an entry " -foo-1.0
> old". It makes absolutely no sense.
Removing versions has implications for the depgraph which make having
it documented locally fairly required. Broken dependencies is the
usual example, (consider developmental profiles), but it gets nastier
than that; consider a pkg depping on
|| ( =foo-1.0 !block-some-other-crap )
Yes that's a screwed up dep, but people come up with some weird
stuff- the point either way is that removal of 1.0 can have
implications beyond just the perceived cleanup. Usage of --force in
conjunction with it makes it worse.
Not opposed to pruning the logs (every few years we seem to go cleanup
the offenders), but removals *matter* for the depgraph, thus
have been required to be documented long term.
~harrng
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