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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Devmanual text on ChangeLogs
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On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 9:44 AM, "Pawe=C5=82 Hajdan, Jr."
<phajdan.jr@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I'm fine with shipping a trimmed down versions to users, but I think the
> full version must be easy to access.
If the changelogs were accessible via a predicable URL then a simple
command-line tool or portage option might display them on request.
echangeinfo cat/pkg is probably no harder for the average end-user to
type than less /usr/portage/cat/pkg/ChangeLog.
Rich