Especially if the changelog files are broken up by year or so.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 5:14 AM, Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 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
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